I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

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

I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

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

That's the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is.. and in fact it's more an art form than it is a science, and you have to continually work the problem, continually try.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

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