As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is, in all of the polls I've seen, the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.