Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.

War is a profane thing.

Neither Powell nor I wanted a ground war,

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.