In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

I am in control here, in the White House.