I feel that it's important our professionals have the tools to keep the enemy, to stop their attacks.

If you say, "Are you going to change your strategic objective?", it means you're leaving before the mission is complete, and we're not going to leave before the mission in Iraq is complete.

Nothing can be further than the truth.

"Reinvention" is a word that doesn't fit into my vocabulary.

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.