But we don't go out and say something inaccurate about it. You lose so much more if, in fact, people cannot believe what you're saying.

It's not going to take years, and it's not going to take days. It'll take some months. And then we will go back to the president with our recommendations as to what we believe are the priorities and what needs to be done,

It turns out that we have not found weapons of mass destruction. And does everyone know he had them at one point? Certainly. Does everyone believe -- even those in the U.N. who voted the other way -- acknowledge the fact that he had filed a fraudulent declaration with the United Nations?

I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.

I really believe that before its over, its not going be a cruise missile or a bomber that is going to be the determining factor, ... It's going to be a scrap of information from some person, in some country that's been repressed by a dictatorial regime that's been sponsoring a terrorist organization that's going to provide the information that's going to enable us to pull this network up by its roots and end it.

We believe we are now able to carry out strikes around the clock, as we wish.

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.