Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

[Saddam Hussein] could have easily reconstituted a program. He was a threat to peace before we went in. He'd have been a threat to peace had we left him in power. Oftentimes history judges you on the decisions you make.

There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.

Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it.

The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.

It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war.

And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda. . . .