"Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States."

"I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I think if we we're going to remove Saddam Husse…"

"And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very da…"

"Because if we had gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn't have been anybody else with us. It wou…"

"The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the U…"

"The suggestion that somehow, because this was a close election, we should fundamentally change our beliefs I just thi…"

"We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will."

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction; there is no doubt that he i…"

"We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."

"Principle is okay up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose."