At A Time When We Must Seek

Whether It Is An Attempt To Bomb The New York City Subway System, An Attempt To Bring Down An Airplane Over Detroit, An Attempt To Set Off A Bomb In Times Square ... I Think That Gives Us A Sense Of The Breadth Of The Challenges That We Face, And The Kinds Of Things That Our Enemy Is Trying To Do.

There's A Certain Level Of Vehemence, It Seems To Me, That's Directed At Me [and] Directed At The President. You Know, People Talking About Taking Their Country Back. There's A Certain Racial Component To This For Some People. I Don't Think This Is The Thing That Is A Main Driver, But For Some There's A Racial Animus.

Operation Fast And Furious Was Flawed In Concept And Flawed In Execution. The Tactics Used In This Operation Violate Department Of Justice Policy And Should Never Have Been Used.

When You Compare What People Endured In The South In The 60s To Try To Get The Right To Vote For African Americans, And To Compare What People Were Subjected To There To What Happened In Philadelphia - Which Was Inappropriate, Certainly That . . . To Describe It In Those Terms I Think Does A Great Disservice To People Who Put Their Lives On The Line, Who Risked All, For My People.

Guantanamo Is A Chief Recruiting Tool For Al-qaida. It Has Put A Wedge Between The United States And At Least Some Of Its Allies.