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

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.

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.

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.