I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Your body and the environment around you may reflect the disturbing and unusual activities unfolding across the globe as the planet evolves.

I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!

You're expected to be perfect the day you start and then improve.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.

Stand up for your values, be courageous and humble