Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

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.

[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.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.

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Success is all about patience.

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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills.