I don't think it was a patriotic war. I think it was a mistake, a strategic mistake, and I think that the president of the United States wasn't patriotic in going after Saddam Hussein. He simply misled America and cost us casualties and killed and injured America's reputation around the world without valid reason for doing so. It's not patriotic; it's wrong.

Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

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.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

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

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.