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“Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.”
“Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.”
“The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.”
“In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go.”
“National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.”
“We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.”
“George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.”
“In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.”
“The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.”
“We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.”
“Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.”
“We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.”
“The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.”
“If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.”
“But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.”
“Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.”
“Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.”
“Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.”
“Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.”
“To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.”