...there have been plenty of markers that show that this is a country that is worth the investment because once it emerges as a country that is a stabilizing factor, you'll have a very different kind of Middle East. And I know that from the point of view of not just monetary costs, but the sacrifice of American lives, a lot has been sacrificed for Iraq, a lot has been invested in Iraq.

The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenan…

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

...those hostilities were not very well contained, as we found out on September 11th, and so the notion that somehow policies that finally confront extremism a…

The Baghdad regime is the first oil-producing government to opt for 100-per-cent nationalisation, a process completed with the acquisition of foreign assets in…

I think we need to continue working hard on developing a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East... unfortunately things are not going in the right direct…

Effective security measures do not come cheap.