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

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.

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.

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.

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

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.