Nearly Losing My Life Made Me Want

What Is More Comforting To The Terrorists Around The World: The Failure To Pass The 9/11 Legislation Because We Lacked 'a Majority Of The Majority,' Or Putting Aside Partisan Politics To Enact Tough New Legislation With America's Security Foremost In Mind?

The American People... Want Change. They Want Big Ideas, Big Reform.

The Problem Is, You Have To Look At Afghanistan Also In A Global Context Where We've Canceled Basically Our Missile Defense System Undercutting The Czech Republic In Poland. We've I Think Not Dealt With Iran With The Kind Of Resolve That Would Show That We Understand The Nature Of That Threat.

Counting The Numbers Of Troops Is Not Going To Define Our Success Here.there Is No Military Success, Ultimately, To Afghanistan. The Afghans Themselves Are Going To Define What Happens Here. And We Have To Convince Ourselves That We Have A Strategy In Place That Empowers Them To Do That And That Is Realistic In What Our Expectations Are From Them And On What Schedule.

I Think That Every Country Presents Its Own Particular Challenges, Different Cultures, Different Histories, Different Religions, Different People. And Different Ethnic Make-ups In Those Countries Present Different Challenges.