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

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

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

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

But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.

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.

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.