I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

... something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is an open question.

We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox.

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

If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.

Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.