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.

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

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

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

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

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.