Political Quotes

“I think the record is relatively clear. In many ways, the Clinton administration in the 1990s got the message. After the World Trade Center bombing, after the U.S. barracks bombings, after our embassy bombings, after the USS Cole and as American civilians were attacked around the world, the rhetoric was very, very good. The rhetoric that came out of the Clinton administration said we are at war. We are prepared to punish and hold those accountable who have attacked us. We are willing to go in and preemptively attack and be on the offense against those who may attack us in the future; and we may even go it alone, because we will not allow another country to hold veto over American national security. They defined the war. They said we are at risk at home and abroad. Civilian, military individuals would be at risk; our allies would be at risk. Madeleine Albright identified that it would be an unconventional war. Parts of it would be conventional; parts of it would be unconventional. Some battles would be in the open; some would be in secret. We would use both conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction. It is a violent and a dangerous world. Truck bombs, improvised explosive devices, small labs for chemical and biological weapons, weapons that could be delivered by plane, ships, missiles, or backpacks.”