The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

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.

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

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