04/18/2009
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"I have never suggested that Senator McCain picks his positions on national security based on politics or personal ambition."
"We must also recognize that we cannot succeed in Afghanistan or secure America as long as there is a terrorist safe-haven in northwest Pakistan."
"The idea that no matter where you come from, or what you look like, or who your parents are, this is a place where anything is possible."
"This is the central front in the war on terrorism."