There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.

It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.

Already the scent of victory is in the air.

I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.

Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law - not the rule of force - governs relations between states. A world in which leaders respect the rights of their people, and nations seek peace, not destruction or domination. And neither we nor anyone else should live in fear ever again.

The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this: American military power, especially when buttressed by Britain's, is virtually unchallengeable today. Take us on? Don't try! And that's not hubris, it's just plain fact.

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.