Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.