You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

When placed in command, take charge.

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.