We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.

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.

It takes two to Tao.

Politics divides a nation, instead of bringing its people together.

Through many tribulations, we begin to search for the truth.

All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet.

I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.