I do think it's a big mistake to assume that creating this new big department is the be-all and end-all in home defense. . . . It may do more good than harm. But it is not all that can be done.

I had made a terrible personal mistake which I didn't try to correct until almost a year later and I had to live with it, and it caused enormous amount of pain to my family, to my administration, to the country.

That was a big mistake and I'll just have to come back from it and learn from it. I think what happened is I took the lutz for granted and I wasn't focusing.

We had an incumbent ... who couldn't think of a mistake he has made in four years and a challenger ... who has seven houses, married a billionaire and has French relatives.

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

I think it was a big mistake by the chancellor to take a position before he saw the (U.N.) inspectors' report. That isolated Germany.