My Belief Is We Will, In Fact,

You Cannot Be Driven By The Polls. The Polls Change All The Time; They're Easily Manipulated By Whoever Wants To Ask Those Poll Questions; They Go Up; They Go Down.

Because If We Make The Wrong Choice, Then The Danger Is That We'll Get Hit Again, That We'll Be Hit In A Way That Will Be Devastating From The Standpoint Of The United States, And That We'll Fall Back Into The Pre-9/11 Mind Set If You Will, That In Fact These Terrorist Attacks Are Just Criminal Acts, And That We're Not Really At War. I Think That Would Be A Terrible Mistake For Us.

I Think They're In The Last Throes, If You Will, Of The Insurgency.

I Can't Think Of A Time When We've Had A Region Emerge As Suddenly To Become As Strategically Significant As The Caspian.

I'm Not Apologetic With Respect To The Policies Of The Bush Administration. I Think We Basically Got It Right.