The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be.