You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

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 am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.

When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.