Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is probably the best place to put that proposition to the test Well, you're going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

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.

But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.