The fundamental question facing Iraq government is whether or not we will stand with reformers across the region. It's really the task. And we're going to stand with this government.

War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.

We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.

We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some... And so we will find them.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.

Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty.