We do know, with absolute certainty, that Saddam Hussein is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.

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

We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage.

I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.

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