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

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.

That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.