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.

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

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.

The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, `Oh, my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this?'

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

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.