General Boykin has requested that an inspector general review this matter. And I have indicated that if that's his request, I think it's appropriate.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets.

I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.

An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.

"Do you have any regrets?" Of course I do.

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.