You know, the country is basically peaceful.

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

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

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.

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.