We will not win the war on terror through military action. The sharing of information and intelligence will be vital to protecting our country.

A plague more monstrous than anything we have experienced could spread with all the irrevocability of ink on tissue paper. Ancient scourges would quickly become modern nightmares.

The more reliant we become upon computers and information systems, the more vulnerable we become to cyber-terrorists who will conceive unlimited ways to cripple our infrastructure, our power grids, our banking systems, our financial markets, our space based communications systems.

I am prepared to place 30 years of public service on the line to say the only factor that was important in this decision is what was in the American people's best interest. There were no other factors.

That hole in the side of the Cole was actually a hole in the chest and the heart of the American people.

The taxpayers paid for this. Right now they're getting no economic value from it. Zero.

The tone, tenor and substance of what you had to say is very different from what we heard before.

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least... Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.

These plans make it very clear . . . that there is no room for harassment or threats in the military.

To the extent that this bombing interrupted the training activities of a terrorist network, they may be more safe.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

Technology is miniaturizing the globe, binding our destiny ever more closely to that of our allies and economic partners around the world.

We intend to take down that terror network.