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 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.

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've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.