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

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

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

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is, in all of the polls I've seen, the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

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

[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.