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Externally, they appear to be weapons of mass destruction, ... But until we get into them, look at them, analyze it, find out what it was, we're not going to know.

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We have seen repeated speculation about his possible location, but it has obviously not been verifiable, ... Had it been verifiable, one would have thought that someone might have done something about it.

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does not reflect the strategic realities of today.

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Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

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The Soviet Union is gone. The cold war is over, ... The deterrence strategy does need to evolve so that it's appropriate for the kinds of emerging threats to exists.

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Insofar as I am aware, we have gotten everything from Saudi Arabia that we have asked them to do. I have been in touch with the Saudi leadership, and there is no question they are our friends.

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These are the people who took plastic knives and box cutters and flew airplanes filled with themselves, as well as American citizens, into the World Trade Center and this building you're sitting in (the Pentagon), ... Why would one be surprised that they're determined, well-trained, clever, capable of using modern technology ... to kill people

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Like all alliances, this relationship must and is, in fact, evolving to remain strong and relevant, ... It's our joint responsibility to manage the alliance's evolution, and we are getting that job done.

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The terrorists who are attacking our way of life do not have armies, navies or air forces. They do not have capitals. They do not have high-value targets that the typical weapons of war can go in and attack.

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There is no question but that 74.7 billion is a great deal of money, but the cost of not investing would be far greater, ... We need the funds. We need the flexibility as to how they are spent, so we can adapt to the unknowable circumstances that are unfolding in the weeks and months ahead.

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There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

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Well, I suppose that what they're trying to do is to capture press attention, obviously, and they've succeeded.

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Instead of an attack with 3,000 people killed, imagine an attack with a biological weapon that kills 30,000 or 300,000 innocent people.

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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he was confident the military campaign would be successful in removing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from power. Things are going very well, ... the pressure is continuing on the Iraqi regime, and the regime will not be there in the period ahead.

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In Washington, Bush administration officials insisted the campaign against terror was going largely as expected, countering assertions by some critics that they may have underestimated the Taliban. We said it would be long. We said it would be difficult, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

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Oil had to be a factor in the White House calculations, even if the motivation was less about short-term U.S. oil supplies and more about future geopolitical power. In 2000, two-thirds of Persian Gulf oil went to Western industrial nations. By 2015, according to CIA estimates, three-quarters of the Gulf's oil will go to Asia, chiefly to China.

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Since no nation threatens China, one must wonder Why this growing investment

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We fully intend to find them and chase them to the ground and root them out, ... We certainly intend to find (bin Laden) and we're doing everything humanly possible to do that.

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My latest information is they have not come to an agreement, ... It's an investigation. It is done together. We'll just have to wait and see.

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In the event (war) becomes necessary, there would be the precipitating event of rejecting the inspectors, which would be such that people would nod and say, 'Fair enough If he's (Saddam Hussein) that determined to keep the weapons of mass destruction and that unwilling to disarm himself, then he must have a darn good reason and that isn't going to be very good for the neighborhood or for the rest of the world,'

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I'll just simply say they do have weapons of mass destruction, ... And the purpose of the U.N. resolution, of course, is for them to allow inspectors in and allow inspectors to make some conclusions.

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Some parts of the administration have been slower to reach this point than others. In the midst of the May attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney famously said that the insurgency was in its last throes. ... Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years. Coalition forces, foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency. We're going to create an environment that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi security forces can win against that insurgency.

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America is a nation at war, ... It is a war we did not ask for, but it is a war we must fight. It is a war we must win and we will. ... Detaining 'enemy combatants' is a part of that war.

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I have not seen the tape. I do not know if that is on the tape.. whether or not he was dead or alive when whatever took place did take place, ... It seems to me that one ought to be willing to allow some time to pass over something like this so that the people who are looking at these things can come to some conclusions.

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Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

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