The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult.

Terrorism threat is serious, and not just to American interests. The assaults in Russia against two airliners, bringing them out of the sky, and against a subway station, and then that horrible scene at the school in Beslan. This kind of terrorist activity no one is immune from it. And so it suggests that we have to do even more together to make sure the civilized worlds join together in the war against terrorism.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.

One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.