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.

[Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

The bottom line is that we've had enormous successes (in Iraq) and we will continue to have enormous successes.

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.

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