We have great information. They're going to welcome us. It'll be like the American Army going through the streets of Paris. They're sitting there ready to form a new government. The people will be so happy with their freedoms that we'll probably back ourselves out of there within a month or two.

The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism.