President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common

The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone sitting in Somalia or in Chile or in Perth, Australia, can be sitting there with a laptop and can theoretically take down one of our power grids or part of our infrastructure and do infinitely more damage. Nobody talks about that. It's not a question of who comes into the United States. We're way past that.

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.