I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

Now is the time for resolve, not retreat. Turning our backs on post-war Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing post-war Germany back to the Nazis.

If anybody thinks that I'm [in Iraq] to throw water on a fire, they're wrong,

Learn to say "I don't know." If used when appropriate, it will be often.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.