"If we want to symbolize American plans to dominate Iraq after the transition to self- government,

"If we want to symbolize American plans to dominate Iraq after the transition to self-government, we could not choose a better site. If we want a credible signal that we'll fade into the background after liberating the country, the choice could hardly be worse."
Richard K. Betts
Director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University in New York, on U.S. plans to use Saddam Hussein's palace in Baghdad as the next U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
President of the European Parliament.
"What I did was I begged, I wheedled ... I did everything."
Presidential candidate Wesley Clark
Of his experience in the Army to Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.