I like the people here, and I really love the retail politics, ... Crossfire.

Operations must have sound, achievable political aims. ... But there are also requirements for police activities ... and the fact is that most militaries are simply not capable of performing such functions effectively and should not be the primary element responsible for them.

I think what you have to understand about the armed forces, ... it's a competitive bureaucracy. People enter it at the bottom and they come out at the top. There's a lot of gossip. There are some sharp elbows in there,

More than half the American people now believe that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake, ... They're right. But it would also be a mistake to pull out now, or to start pulling out or to set a date certain for pulling out. Instead we need a strategy to create a stable, democratizing and peaceful state in Iraq -- a strategy the administration has failed to develop and articulate.

It has to be this way, and these people have to be a part of modern Europe. That's what they want to do and I believe they will achieve that status.

People of every ethnic group and religious persuasion have got to be given the right to live here,