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The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.