First, I wanted to answer the question I'm most frequently asked: "How did you become who you are?" Well, you had to know John and Angelena Rice.

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.

Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.

This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of World War II to the extraordinary events of the end of the Cold War and a system that was one of prosperity and peace for a lot of people, including for the United States.