I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or black or white, or whatever. To me, I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things.

I want to be very clear - whenever it is possible to capture a suspected terrorist, it is the unqualified preference of the Administration to take custody of that individual so we can obtain information that is vital to the safety and security of the American people.