You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

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

From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.

I think President Obama is going to be a one-term president.

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.