Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

I think freedom means freedom for everybody.

It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.

The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt.

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.