Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.

But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.