We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

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.

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.

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

The real destination lies in step taking!

We become great, not by changing the world, but by loving the world and changing ourselves.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain kids is to make them laugh.

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

There's people in hell who want ice water.

I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have judgment and won't do anything stupid.