We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

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.

Dumnezeu este doar unul şi acelaşi pretutindeni.

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

Now I just want it to end. I’ve always wanted the happy ending, but now I’ll just settle for the ending.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.

People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

You might be a redneck if you can't get married to your sweetheart because there is a law against it.

Wall Street is a place where the day begins with good buys.

Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.