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

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.

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

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

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

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.