When the civilized world demonstrated its determination, the Libyan government correctly judged its own interests, and the American people are safer.

Probably 70 percent of hands went up, ... And people were really stunned that there is nowhere in the Patriot Act the mention of library records.

We knew they were going to fly a commercial airliner into the tallest building in California. And it was an analytic judgement by the intelligence community that that meant the Library Tower.

If it were that simple, it would have been easier. There were numerous reports about the levees. Most of them were inconsistent.

I haven't presumed that there needs to be a revision of the Stafford or Insurrection Act,

It turned out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated, ... The thing that changed this was not Katrina itself, the thing that was the catastrophic event was the failure of the levee.