Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

Foreign fighters are travelling into Iraq to make it a front line in the war on terror. And I would rather defeat them there than face them in our own country.

There's been shock waves sent throughout all parts of the nation's economic fabric.

"Statesman" presumes I'm out there giving opinions all the time about things, and no, I'm not interested in opining on a lot of subjects.

The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.

The question is who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear. I'm a commander guy.