“Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.”

“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.”

“I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”

“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. ”

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”

“The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror...so today I vetoed it”

“The struggle in the Holy Land is no longer Palestinian versus Israeli, or Muslim versus Jew. It is between those who seek peace and extremists who promote terror.”