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

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

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

We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.