I think that you can have a legitimate insurgency in a country that has popular support and has a cohesiveness and has a legitimate gripe. These people don't have a legitimate gripe, |
I think the only people who could conceivably be talking about a draft are people who are speaking from pinnacles of near-perfect ignorance. |
I think this constant quest for new information and smoking guns is misguided, |
I think what you are seeing is the Iraqi people, for the first time, wrestling with very tough, fundamental issues that are important to them, to their future, reflecting the history of the country. They've been proceeding in a very orderly, peaceful way, |
I want to emphasize how important it is that Congress pass the final legislation prior to the upcoming Senate recess, |
I wanted to have a chance to look at the bases and get briefed by the military people on the island and develop a first-hand opinion about what's taking place there and how we're arranged. |
I will answer that one question, ... The president has stated what the policy is, the secretary of state has stated it, and I have stated it. And it's all exactly the same, so I think the stories that have been playing are just inaccurate and mischievous. |
I will be 85 before it's finished, I'm afraid, |
I will be talking about the changed circumstance in the world and our recognition that with those changes it's important that the United States as well as the NATO alliance adjust to those changes, |
I wish the constitution were complete rather than delayed by seven days, or up to seven days. |
I wish we could say ... that this is a time for peaceful remembrance, that we were gathering today to commemorate a danger that had long since past, ... ... But we cannot. The enemy, though seriously weakened and continuously under pressure, continues to plot attacks and the danger they pose to the free world is real and present. |
I would be delighted to take credit for it. It's a good plan. It's a creative and an innovative plan, and it's going to work, ... it's a little early for postmortems. |
I would characterize it as 'much ado about nothing,' |
I would characterize it as an isolated problem. |
I would guess there will be an end, ... Can I tell you for sure? No. ... This isn't World War I or World War II, that starts and then ends. Take Afghanistan. We've moved from major military activities to a point where at the present time, the vast majority of the country is in a stabilization security mode. |