Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.

Don't expect a great day; create one.

For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

I'm an old-school guy.

I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees.