Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.