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.

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.

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

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is probably the best place to put that proposition to the test Well, you're going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

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