06/23/2000
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"We are simply giving law enforcement agencies who are committed to fighting terrorists for us the tools they need to succeed in the modern world."
"I think it's important that when we disagree, we do it in the right way, aggressively and forthrightly, but in the proper forum."
"Now as then, we know that service is our highest call."
"Eleven million service members—more than 400,000 of them American—perished in that war."