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.

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

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

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

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

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.