Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

[Saddam] built up a massive war machine while neglecting the basic needs of his own people.

Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that we-technology can be developed so we can have zero-emissions coal-fired electricity plants.

The challenge in Iraq is to provide a security plan such that a political process can go forward. I'm sure you all are tired of hearing me say 12 million Iraqi voted. But it's an indication about the desire for people to live in a free society. That's what that means. The only way to defeat Al Qaida ideology in the long term is to defeat it through another ideology, a competing ideology, one that - where government responds to the will of the people.

I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.