I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

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.

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

The bottom line is that we've had enormous successes (in Iraq) and we will continue to have enormous successes.

We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to kill four million Americans,... For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we won't be hit again.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.