I Worship The Ground Paul Ryan Walks

The Threat Is There. It's Very Real And It's Continuing. And What The Obama People Are Doing, In Effect, Is Saying, Well, We Don't Need Those Tough Policies That We Had. That Says Either They Didn't Work, Which We Know Is Not The Case - They Did Work, They Kept Us Safe For Seven Years - Or That Now Somehow The Threat's Gone Away. There's No Longer A Threat Out There, We Don't Have To Be As Tough And Aggressive As The Bush Administration Was.

I Worry Very Much That We're In A Situation Now Where There Doesn't Appear To Be Any Limitation Whatsoever In Terms Of The Spending Commitments That Obama's Administration Wants To Make. Vast Expansion In Terms Of The Deficit, But It Also Says A Lot About What They Intend For The Role Of Government In The Society.

I Think, In Fact, The Situation With Respect To Al Qaeda, To Say That, You Know, That Was A Big Attack We Had On 9/11, But It's Not Likely Again, I Just Think That's Dead Wrong. I Think The Biggest Strategic Threat The United States Faces Today Is The Possibility Of Another 9/11 With A Nuclear Weapon Or A Biological Agent Of Some Kind. And I Think Al Qaeda Is Out There Even As We Meet, Trying To Figure Out How To Do That.

President Bush Gave Me A Tremendous Opportunity To Serve As The Vice President. I Enjoyed Very Much Having The Opportunity To Be A Part Of His Team. He Told Me At The Outset, He Wanted Me To Sign On To Be A Part Of His Team - And He Was True To His Word, Kept It. He Was Tough. He Was Decisive. He Was Also A Pretty Good Politician.

I Mean, It's Not Just One Day You Get Up, Bang, And You Got Osama Bin Laden. It's The Kind Of Thing Where An Awful Lot Of People Over A Long Period Of Time - Thousands Have Worked This Case And These Issues And Followed On The Leads And Captured Bad Guys And Interrogated Them And So-forth.