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

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.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

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

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.

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.

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.