The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to those questions are not knowable.

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.

I don't do quagmires.

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

Our goal is to defend the American people, and to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and to liberate the Iraqi people.

We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.