This mission has a chance to succeed. It will be hard, slow-going, and there will be setbacks.

If the risk is a return to repression and the terror of the Taliban, and there is a chance of success then we should not be afraid of this mission, even if it will be difficult.

Beautiful words on international solidarity don't mean a thing if we would quit after the smallest setback.

We have a number of requirements and the Cabinet has moved in the right direction in the recent period.

The more in tune the pitcher and catcher are, the better the chance they're going to have to succeed. I think it's trust.

Anytime you get a chance to play, you have a chance to succeed, ... It's a matter of what you do with it once you have it. I'm not complaining. It's the nature of the business.