To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

We'll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means dealing not only with the terrorists, but those who harbor terrorists. This will take a long, sustained effort. It will require the support of the American people as well as our friends and allies around the world.

Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.