There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1, 200, 1, 500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

There was a military police brigade with over 3, 400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.

Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the negatives - and having the courage to change what must be changed for the sake of the entire world.

When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.

Children picking up our bonesWill never know that these were onceAs quick as foxes on the hill

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.

Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.

we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

It's sometimes said that I'm rebellious and I do things to push people's buttons, but I just like the challenge.

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.