The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

There is no free market in oil.

Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

At the millennium we partied like it was 1999. And then we had a 10 year bathtub tequila hangover, man. Just hugging the metaphorical toilet on a daily basis.

It is a great victory that comes without blood.

It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did it without any ego involved and that you did it for somebody else. That's the best you can do.