When people see the terrible scenes of violence on television, when we mourn the death of each and every American man and woman in uniform or a civilian that's killed in Iraq, that it's hard to see the progress that's being made and it's hard to believe that this is all going to come out for the better.

NATO is built on security, but it's also built on values.

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction.

I'm a terrible long-term planner.

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.