I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.

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

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.

Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi?

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.