As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.

Remember, success for a politician is 50% plus one. You don't have to have everybody on board.

Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.