I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'