Because I know that as successful as I believe we will be, and I believe that the success [in Iraq] will be fairly easy, we will still lose some American young men or women. And that's a great tragedy.

The vice president has two duties. One is to inquire daily as to the health of the president, and the other is to attend the funerals of third world dictators.…

I think one of our big problems has been the fact that many Iraqis resent American military presence. And I don't pretend to know exactly Iraqi public opinion.…

[B]y 2008, I think I might be ready to go down to the old soldiers home and await the cavalry charge there.