You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

We view Egypt as a good friend of America. We are in constant touch with them. We provide them economic and military assistance as part of our relationship.

Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.

Be careful what you choose: You may get it.

I don't think anyone would disagree with the conclusion that Saddam [Hussein] was a terrible dictator. He had gassed his own people and his neighbors. He had killed thousands of people, and he had started a couple of wars and destroyed his country.