I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

If Iraq fails to fully comply, the United States and other nations will disarm Saddam Hussein.

I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.

And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.

....it is better to succeed with success than failure.

Sometimes armchair quarterbacks are doing it to enhance their own image. I'm just not comfortable with that idea.

When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.