The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.