The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

Feith had achieved the reputation in some military circles as 'the dumbest . . . guy on the planet.'

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

I'm a pretty serious Independent.