Quotes

It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

There are those who say, "Well, if you didn't go into Iraq, there wouldn't be terrorists there." They weren't some place drinking tea and playing Scrabble. These are hardened jihadists who will fight us some place. And if they want to fight us in Iraq, where we are 140,000 strong, better there than in New York City again.

[on meeting Muammar Gaddafi] [It] was a pretty strange set of events, especially since he had written a song abut me. He showed a little video of me with [Vladimir] Putin, set to the song 'Black Flower in the White House'. I probably looked totally shocked.

[on why 9/11 was so unpredictable]: We received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles.

The demise of Osama bin Laden is a tremendous victory for the American people. Justice has been done and we are all indebted to the American military and intelligence community for their skill and dedication. Nothing can bring back bin Laden's innocent victims, but perhaps this can help salve the wounds of their loved ones.

[on the second plane hitting the second tower of the WTC on 9/11]: It was the moment that changed everything.