Barack Obama actually said...

There needs to be a cost.

There's no country that we are more in sync with in terms of our values and our foreign policy and our security cooperation around the world...

Above all, we reaffirm the true spirit of 9/11—love, compassion, and sacrifice—and we enshrine it forever in the heart of our Nation.

I have determined that it is necessary to continue in effect after September 14, 2014, the national emergency with respect to the terrorist ...