I look forward to working with you on our priorities that I know we share together.

I believe that the local, Federal, and private-sector collaboration that took place there is really a model for how our National security apparatus should work here at home.

The problem is that the Sinai is linked into this global network.

The credibility of American leadership is being questioned as it has not been for a very long time.

Just as we've layered security across ports and transportation systems, we need to do the same in the cyber world.

the terror threat is growing and some are not paying adequate attention to that.

I do not today see a credible or coherent American strategy for these countries--Syria, Iraq, and Libya--that most threaten to emerge as al-Qaeda's newest and most dangerous footholds.

to defeat this threat we need more than kinetic force.

It is someone else's civil war' is a familiar refrain we are hearing often again. That is, again, a very false and dangerous narrative.

President Obama repeatedly tells us that al-Qaeda is on its heels and on the run.

Killing bin Laden was an important accomplishment, but it has not put al-Qaeda on its heels or secured the homeland.

Today there is no central al-Qaeda nucleus.