Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.