We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror and the violence. And it is up to the Palestinian people to judge who those new leaders should be.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

I think the American people want to see what we want to see, and that is for the Iraqi people to have a free, open, fair election, for their forces to be built up, for our reconstruction money to be used well, and for Iraqi security forces to take over so we can start bringing our troops home.

I think all of the attention of the world, to include the attention of the Arab world, should be on Saddam Hussein and whether or not he is prepared to give up the weapons of mass destruction that he has used to terrorise the region.

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

Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.