If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Our goal is to defend the American people, and to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and to liberate the Iraqi people.

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.

No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.