I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it turned out to be not exactly as they had anticipated.

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

I think we have do everything we can to show that we are functioning, that we can get through this problem, that we are not going to overreact to the challenge before us.