If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.

The president is out there today trying to talk about health care, and the reality is nobody cares about what he's saying on health care because this news is consuming everything. No president could tolerate that or should tolerate it.

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

I want you and the people of Israel to know a few things that have not and will not change. The United States stands firmly with Israel, and we have a rock solid commitment to the security of Israel and to the security of its citizens.