I think we both know we need them and they need us. It's become a very strange codependency.

Our precondition for any cooperation going forward has to be that people are allowed to continue to leave, even after the airlift.

We have to find the modus vivendi with China. That's job number one.

I will make you pay a price. We haven't been willing to make them pay a price, except for economic sanctions.

The people who become terrorists in Europe are not refugees. They're not people who have been born in the Middle East and come here. They are people who are disaffected citizens of their own country, the country of their birth.

We have to deal not just with police tactics and intelligence tactics, but we have to get at the root causes.

If societies can offer people an alternative pathway, employment perhaps, meaningful life, education, a chance to move up, you're not going to see as much of this.

I think it is. I think Al-Maliki, despite all of our warnings and all of our efforts to reach out to the Sunnis and the Kurds, to have a real government of national reconciliation and he's consistently refused and been aggressively going…

We should have never gone in in the first place. The situation we face now is directly because we went in.

Dick Cheney is a discredited hypocrite. He knew in 1991 that it was a mistake to go in and that was the only time he's ever been right about Iraq. Why anybody would listen to Dick Cheney on Iraq is beyond me?

He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know.

Computer industry insiders have solutions to many cyber security problems, but the incentives to adopt them are weak, primarily because security is expensive and there is no requirement they be adopted until disaster strikes.

The administration had done nothing about al Qaeda prior to 9/11, despite that the CIA director was telling them virtually every day that there was a major threat.

There has to be a political way, a political process, based on argument and facts and debate not on criminal charges and mud slings.

I believe the Bush administration in the first eight months considered terrorism an important issue, but not an urgent issue.

By invading Iraq, the president of the United States has greatly undermined the war on terrorism.

My view was that this administration, while it listened to me, didn't either believe me that there was an urgent problem or was unprepared to act as though there were an urgent problem.

By invading Iraq, the president of the United States has greatly undermined the war on terrorism.

Basically, the president botched the response to 9/11. He should have gone right after Afghanistan, right after bin Laden and then he made the whole war on terrorism so much worse by invading Iraq.