I Learned Early On That If You

I'm Absolutely Convinced That The Threat We Face Now, The Idea Of A Terrorist In The Middle Of One Of Our Cities With A Nuclear Weapon, Is Very Real And That We Have To Use Extraordinary Measures To Deal With It.

Because If We Make The Wrong Choice, Then The Danger Is That We'll Get Hit Again, That We'll Be Hit In A Way That Will Be Devastating From The Standpoint Of The United States, And That We'll Fall Back Into The Pre-9/11 Mind Set If You Will, That In Fact These Terrorist Attacks Are Just Criminal Acts, And That We're Not Really At War. I Think That Would Be A Terrible Mistake For Us.

I Wake Up Every Morning Literally With A Smile On My Face, Grateful For Another Day I Never Thought I Would See.

As A Former Secretary Of Defense, I Think Donald Rumsfeld Is The Best Secretary Of Defense The United States Has Ever Had.

It's Very Important To Go Back And Keep In Mind The Distinction Between Handling These Events As Criminal Acts, Which Was The Way We Did Before 9/11, And Then Looking At 9/11 And Saying, 'this Is Not A Criminal Act,' Not When You Destroy 16 Acres Of Manhattan, Kill 3,000 Americans, Blow A Big Hole In The Pentagon. That's An Act Of War.