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.

I - obviously, I'm not a big fan of President Obama. I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

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

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

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.