There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

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.

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

The reality is that [Barack] Obama has some 15 countries in the current Libya coalition. President Bush put together close to 50 countries for the Afghan coalition, some 40 countries for the Iraqi coalition, more than 90 countries for the Proliferation Security Initiative and over 90 countries in the Global War on Terror.