We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.

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

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth 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.

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