My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.

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

One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with other governments, in terms of the willingness of other intelligence services to work with us, in terms of revealing sources and methods. And all of those elements enter into some of these leaks.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

I'm one of those people who believes that part of the greatness of the United States is our private sector. It's what we do as private citizens for ourselves and our companies. And our economy is essentially the wonder of the world because, in fact, it's produced so much for us over the years.