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"The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book."
American
"Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about."
Care
"The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort."
Time
"We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq."
Iraq
"Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'"
Sister
"'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected."
War
"Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself."
Violence
"It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest."
War
"I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor."
Leadership
"No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable."
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"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits."
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"The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands."
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"We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding."
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"We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria."
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"I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed."
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"The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up."
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"I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq."
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"The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq."
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"Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'"
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"We are not going to abandon Iraq."
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