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.

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.

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

I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

... 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.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.