Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

The fact of the matter is that we are facing a small group of bitter-enders who are basically trying turn the tide of history.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.