We want to approach this in a multilateral way, talking with our friends, consulting with our security council colleagues in the United Nations, hoping to find a way to solve this peacefully, but at the same time recognising that unless the threat of military force is there, Iraq will not disarm.

You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

Let me blow that up for you again.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

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.

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

I have always admired the Linking Pin theory of management specialist Rensis Likert. It says that in every organization there are leaders who link the lower level to the upper level. What makes somebody an effective link as a leader is that he conveys down everything that above wants and he conveys up everything that below needs.