"Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them."

"We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone."

"The weather was bad. We don't know of any enemy action. The investigation continues,"

"We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will remain less than 10 -- and a number of wounded,"

"And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline."

"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly."

"As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi."

"Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last."

"But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough."

"But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate."

"But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity."

"Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation."

"The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nor the one who never fails... but rather the one who moves on im spite of failure. Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat. Author: Teddy Roosevelt"

"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other."

"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it"

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have."

"Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping."

"If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness"

"Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the"

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering"

"Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."

"In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is:hit the line hard."

"There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head"

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat."

"It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home."

"It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

"All the resources we need are in the mind"

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything"

"Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past."

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience."

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."

"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."

"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."

"The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead."

"No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse"

"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"

"I am a part of everything that I have read."

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards."

"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."

"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."

"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."