I recognize the need to provide the press - and, through you, the American people - with information to the fullest extent possible. In our democracy, the work of the Pentagon press corps is important, defending our freedom and way of life is what this conflict is about, and that certainly includes freedom of the press.

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.

If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.

There is no question there are people out looking,

The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to those questions are not knowable.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.