No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

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.

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.

Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable of doing it.

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.