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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.