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

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.

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

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.

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.

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