If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.

Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's.

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

I don't think we'll discover anything, myself. I think what will happen is we'll discover people who will tell us where to go find it. It is not like a treasure hunt where you just runaround looking everywhere hoping you find something. I just don't think that's going to happen. The inspectors didn't find anything, and I doubt that we will. What we will do is find the people who will tell us.