We Believe He Has, In Fact, Reconstituted

We've Gotten A Long Way On Missile Defense. We Know How To Do It. We Know How To Take Down Incoming Warheads, But We Need To Do A Lot More Work In Order To Be - To Deploy A System That'll Defend The United States Against Those Kinds Of Limited Strikes That Might Be Possible By A Nuclear Armed North Korea Or Iran.

I've Worked For Four Presidents And Watched Two Others Up Close, And I Know That There's No Such Thing As A Routine Day In The Oval Office.

I Have Argued In The Past, And Would Again, If We Had Been Able To Pre-empt The Attacks Of 9/11 Would We Have Done It? And I Think Absolutely. We Have To Be Prepared Now To Take The Kind Of Bold Action That's Being Contemplated With Respect To Iraq In Order To Ensure That We Don't Get Hit With A Devastating Attack When The Terrorists' Organization Gets Married Up With A Rogue State That's Willing To Provide It With The Kinds Of Deadly Capabilities That Saddam Hussein Has Developed And Used Over The Years.

The United States Needs To Be Not So Much Loved As It Needs To Be Respected. Sometimes, That Requires Us To Take Actions That Generate Controversy. I'm Not At All Sure That That's What The Obama Administration Believes.

I Feel Very Strongly That The Significance Of 9/11 Cannot Be Underestimated. It Forces Us To Think In New Ways About Strategy, About National Security, About How We Structure Our Forces And About How We Use U.s. Military Power.