I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel 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.

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

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

I worry very much that we're in a situation now where there doesn't appear to be any limitation whatsoever in terms of the spending commitments that Obama's administration wants to make. Vast expansion in terms of the deficit, but it also says a lot about what they intend for the role of government in the society.

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.