I Think I Was Able To Survive

We Have To Deal With This New Type Of Threat In A Way We Haven’t Yet Defined. . . . With A Low-probability, High-impact Event Like This . . . If There’s A One Percent Chance That Pakistani Scientists Are Helping Al Qaeda Build Or Develop A Nuclear Weapon, We Have To Treat It As A Certainty In Terms Of Our Response.

When We Get People Who Are More Concerned About Reading The Rights To An Al Qaeda Terrorist Than They Are With Protecting The United States Against People Who Are Absolutely Committed To Do Anything They Can To Kill Americans, Then I Worry.

You Cannot Be Driven By The Polls. The Polls Change All The Time; They're Easily Manipulated By Whoever Wants To Ask Those Poll Questions; They Go Up; They Go Down.

To Bring The Worst Of The Worst Terrorists Inside The United States Would Be Cause For Great Danger And Regret In The Years To Come. It Is Recklessness Cloaked In Righteousness, And Would Make The American People Less Safe.

I Think There’s No Question But What The Tail End Of The Bush Administration, Bush-cheney Administration, That We Took Steps Specifically Geared To Try And Free Up The Financial Sector.