Remember where you came from.

Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.

Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

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.

... 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.

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)