I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.