The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!

Imagine a world in which you had Saddam Hussein, who had the capacity to make a weapon of mass destruction, who was paying suiciders to kill innocent life. Imagine what the world would be like with him in power. The idea is to try to help change the Middle East. Part of the reason we went into Iraq was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn't, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

I'm not that worried about [my parents] right now because they are happy people. I'm pleased that in their later years, in spite of physical ailments, they're upbeat.

Victory means exit strategy. And it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.