I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation's opportunities are not going to be improvement. So and I also think that social media then allows insurgent movements to gain scale at speed.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.