It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. And what makes America complicated as well is the degree to which this is not just a black/white society, and it is becoming less so every year.

I don't regret the excitement, because I do think that it helped us accomplish as much as we did.

We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

The biggest threat that we face right now is not a nuclear missile coming over the skies. It's in a suitcase. This is why the issue of nuclear proliferation is so important. It is the - the biggest threat to the United States is a terrorist getting their hands on nuclear weapons.

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Iran's nuclear program . . . there was going to be a time limit . . .