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.

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 the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

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

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

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

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