It will be televised on C-SPAN. I can't guarantee you it will be exciting.

It will be televised on C-Span. I can guarantee you it will be exciting.

His leadership in that institution will be missed.

I take responsibility and that he would publicly take responsibility.

I take responsibility, and that he would publicly take responsibility.

the system failed to stop the Christmas bomber.

Again, no one stepped down. No one has been fired. And what we keep hearing from government officials is, this is not the time to point fingers.

There is Leon Panetta, the CIA chief. His agency debriefed the bomber's father. The question is, what happened to that intelligence after those briefings?

I will accept that intelligence by its nature is imperfect. But it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not fully analyzed or fully leveraged. That's not acceptable. And I will not tolerate it.

I want specific recommendations for corrective actions to fix what went wrong. I want those reforms implemented immediately so that this doesn't happen again and so we can prevent future attacks.

So we have to do better, and we will do better, and we have to do it quickly. American lives are on the line.

There's a question mark where the head of the TSA should be. Senator -- Senate Republican Jim DeMint of South Carolina holding up confirmation of the nominee, Erroll Southers, for months.

The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the Christmas Day attack. But our intelligence community failed to connect those dots which would have placed the suspect on the no-fly list.

We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for Al Qaida.

I will not tolerate it.

We are determined not only to thwart those plans but to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat their networks once and for all.

Mentors are building a brighter future for our Nation by helping our children grow into productive, engaged, and responsible adults.

I encourage Americans to give back by mentoring young people in their communities who may lack role models.