In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.

Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil.

The message is for everybody who wears the uniform: get ready. The United States will do what it takes to win this war... And this is an administration that is going to dedicate ourselves to winning that war.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front where Pulitzer Prize-to-be winning reporters stood up and declared, the United States is attacked, and all that.

I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.