In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.

We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some... And so we will find them.

I'm comfortable moving into the role of elder person.

But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

The best way to fight evil is to do some good. Let me qualify that—the best way to fight evil at home is to do some good. The best way to fight them abroad is to unleash the military.