The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.

A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.

I, for one, begin with intent. ... There is no question that Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.

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

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago