My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.

As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.