My Belief Is We Will, In Fact,

Europeans Know That Their Great Experiment In Building Peace, Unity And Prosperity Cannot Survive As A Privileged Enclave, Surrounded On Its Outskirts By Breeding Grounds Of Hatred And Fanaticism.

I Think The Key That Happened On 9/11 Is We Went From Considering Terrorist Attacks As A Law Enforcement Problem To Considering Terrorist Attacks, Especially On The Scale We Have On 9/11, As Being An Act Of War.

We're Fighting A War On Terror Because The Enemy Attacked Us First, And Hit Us Hard. ... Al Qaeda's Leadership Has Said They Have The Right To Kill Four Million Americans,... For Nearly Six Years Now, The United States Has Been Able To Defeat Their Attempts To Attack Us Here At Home. Nobody Can Guarantee That We Won't Be Hit Again.

We Now Have Irrefutable Evidence That [saddam] Has Once Again Set Up And Reconstituted His Program To Take Uranium, To Enrich It To Sufficiently High Grade, So That It Will Function As The Base Material As A Nuclear Weapon. And There's No Doubt About The Fact That The Level Of Effort Has Escalated In Recent Months.

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.