"The biological weapons facilities, the mobile one that the DIA and CIA put a paper out on the other day, I think make it clear that there is such a capability that's existed over the years."

Source: Press Gaggle, State Dept (5/30/2003).

"The presentation I made on the 5th of February, where I put up the cartoons of those biological vans, we didn't just make them up one night. Those were eyewitness accounts of people who had worked in the program and knew what was going on, multiple accounts. We have examined those vans repeatedly for the last several weeks, and we are confident that's what they are. Now there will be other theories that come from time to time -- oh, it was a hydrogen making thing for balloons. No. But, there's not question in the mind of the intelligence community as to what it was designed for. And so that is a case of clear solid evidence."

Source: Press Gaggle, State Dept (5/30/2003).

"So far, we have found the biological weapons vans that I spoke about when I presented the case to the United Nations on the 5th of February, and there is no doubt in our minds now that those vans were designed for only one purpose, and that was to make biological weapons."

Source: Interview with French Television 1, TF-1 (5/22/2003).

"The mobile vans that you may have been reading about, it is becoming clear that these vans can have no other purpose than the production of biological weapons."

Source: Press Conference at the French American Press Club, State Dept (5/22/2003).

"The intelligence community has really looked hard at these vans, and we can find no other purpose for them. Although you can't find actual germs on them, they have been cleaned and we don't know whether they have been used for that purpose or not, but they were certainly designed and contructed for that purpose. And we have taken our time on this one because we wanted to make sure we got it right. And the intelligence community, I think, is convinced now that that's the purpose they served."

Source: Remarks with Bahrain's Crown Prince Shaikh salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa After Meeting, State Dept (5/21/2003).