06/23/2013
https://transcripts.cnn.com...
"If we believe that it would be useful to discuss counter-ISIL efforts with Iran, we may do that on the margins of the P5+1 talks, as we have done in the past."
"So as President Obama described last week when he spoke directly to the American people, we do have a clear strategy to degrade, defeat, and destroy ISIL."
"I believe we need to defeat ISIL before they develop the operational capacity to perform a September 11-like attack."
"We must not repeat the mistakes of the past, given the nature of the threat we face."