These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.