We urge the Iraqis to be up to the level of responsibility… to keep Iraq’s unity and safety.

Iraq should understand that if we continue to report that there are open questions and we cannot exclude the possibility that they still have some weapons of mass destruction, that will not satisfy the Security...

In the 1980’s, our Arab allies in the region and our own assessment convinced us that Iraq might be a new kind of moderate Arab leader, that [Saddam] could be brought into the moderate Arab...

It felt like we were reliving the first day of the school year, when students and teachers do the get-to-know-you dance—teachers tell students something about who they are, students pretend to care, and then vice-versa.

I mean, we’ve had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take...

an important message, I think, for the regime and the people of Iraq to understand: that this regime is gone.