I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous.

People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.