In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.