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.

[My favorite dish to cook] is fried chicken, and by the way I'm good at it, too. I make really good fried chicken.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long time ago to give people the benefit of the doubt, not to assume that somebody was reacting to you because of race.