Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.

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.

Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and making payments to the families of suicide bombers. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida -- providing training to Al Qaida members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs. He built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction.

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

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