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

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.

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.

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

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.

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