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

I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.

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

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

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.

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.