When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

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

I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.