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

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.

We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.