The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.

It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced out of power and a new regime brought in, a new leadership brought in, I am confident it will be some combination of people inside the country and outside the country.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free.

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And, if you are not going to cross that line, then these things are basically useless.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.