The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years...We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

Firing employees, that's unfortunately part of doing business.

We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Donald Trump is going to be "Obama squared," a more extreme version of the same thing.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.