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

I recognize the need to provide the press - and, through you, the American people - with information to the fullest extent possible. In our democracy, the work of the Pentagon press corps is important, defending our freedom and way of life is what this conflict is about, and that certainly includes freedom of the press.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

There's no debate in the world as to whether people have weapons of mass destruction... We all know that. A trained ape knows that.

Remember where you came from.

There are a lot of things that are said by people in the military, or civilian life, or in the Congress, or in the Executive Branch, that are their views. And that's the way we live. We're a free people. And that's the wonderful thing about our country.