If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

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.

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.

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

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

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

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.