He's not paying the people in East Alabama any attention. He's doing what he wants to do in Montgomery but he needs to pay the whole state some attention about the gas prices.

I don't think that we have necessarily underestimated it and I'm certain we accounted for enemy action. The specifics of the action -- no one can ever predict exactly how battle will unfold. We can't even completely predict how our own actions will unfold, but I think we can remain confident we have a good grip of what's going on here,

They taught and they trained, and they showed what it meant, really, to be a soldier in the United States,

Right now, these are the tactics of terrorists ... We don't have a good number on how many (non-Iraqi fighters) there are, but we know they don't have a future in Iraq.

These actions are intended to locate regime leaders and also to search former regime facilities,

We think it's entirely possible that this may have been in fact an Iraqi missile that either went up and came down or, given the behaviors of the regime lately, it may have been a deliberate attack inside of town,

We've never said that this would be an easy operation, ... certain of the outcome.

While there may be a number of similarities to what the Geneva Convention describes, that's not a category that we have stated publicly at this point, ... Whether that changes over time needs to be seen.

We believe this is a very significant turning point, ... and yet another indicator that the Iraqi regime is approaching its end.

great soldiers who once roamed this very area, who had such a terrific impact not only on West Point and its history but on the history of this nation.