We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own

We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

We have to have better intelligence. We have to have better interdiction capabilities. And so the issue is not how much we spend or how hard we try; the issue is are we doing it the right way? Are we being smart about it?

What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.

There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.

Each side has legitimate aspirations - and that's part of what makes peace so hard. And the deadlock will only be broken when each side learns to stand in the other's shoes; each side can see the world through the other's eyes. That's what we should be encouraging. That's what we should be promoting.