There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve. |
There have been some commentary from some of our critics -- Howard Dean comes immediately to mind -- saying somehow that this is being hyped for political reasons, that the data that we collected here, the casing reports that provided the information on these prospective attacks, is old data, four or five years old, |
There is a risk to the long-term relationship with China for each day that it goes by unresolved |
There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. |
There was broad-based bipartisan agreement that Saddam Hussein was a threat ... that he violated U.N. Security Council resolutions and that, in a post- 9/11 world, we couldn't afford to take the word of a dictator who had a history of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) programs, who had excluded weapons inspectors ... who had committed mass murder, |
There was never a plan, as far as I was aware of, for a joint press conference, |
There were warnings over a period of months about the possibility of an attack at home, |
There will always be skeptics, but watch what we do and say about these issues, |
There's a temptation, I think, because there's not an active bombing campaign under way on any particular day for people who want to run out and say, 'Well, it's over with.' It's not, |
There's nothing that's more important to us, because at the end of the day, our national security is at stake, |
These are elected officials who had access to the intelligence, and were free to draw their own conclusions. They arrived at the same judgment about Iraq's capabilities and intentions that was made by this administration and by the previous administration, |
these are not times for leaders who shift with the political winds, saying one thing one day and another the next. |
These days of transition are of great importance, ... The transition has a direct bearing on the quality of people who are going to serve, it affects the quality of planning, and the building of relationships between the president and the Congress. It affects the capacity of the new administration to develop and execute a legislative program. |
They are deployed on many fronts in the war on terror, tracking the enemies of freedom, holding them to account, |
They are focused on the future, ... They are focused on the task at hand. |