Nothing can be further than the truth.

A number of people walk up to me and say, "You're much taller than I thought."

After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

I regret the fact that Saddam [Hussein] didn't have weapons of mass destruction that we thought. I don't regret removing him from power.

I said, going into Iraq, "We've got to take threats seriously before they full materialize." I saw a threat. I fully believe it was the right decision to remove Saddam Hussein, and I fully believe the world is better off without him.

Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.