Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

To bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the years to come. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness, and would make the American people less safe.

I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.

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.