I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.

[Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.

I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.