Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

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

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?