As A Former Secretary Of Defense, I

I Think The Key That Happened On 9/11 Is We Went From Considering Terrorist Attacks As A Law Enforcement Problem To Considering Terrorist Attacks, Especially On The Scale We Have On 9/11, As Being An Act Of War.

We Also Have To Work, Though, Sort Of The Dark Side, If You Will. We've Got To Spend Time In The Shadows In The Intelligence World. A Lot Of What Needs To Be Done Here Will Have To Be Done Quietly, Without Any Discussion, Using Sources And Methods That Are Available To Our Intelligence Agencies... That's The World These Folks Operate In, And So It's Going To Be Vital For Us To Use Any Means At Our Disposal, Basically, To Achieve Our Objective.

I'm Up In The Senate Most Tuesdays When They're In Session.

You Can't Fall Back On The Private Sector And Say, 'you Take Care Of The Nation's Banking System.' That's A Fundamental Function Of The Government, The Federal Reserve, The Treasury And The Fdic, Etc. All Of Those Agencies Have A Major Role To Play There.

We're Fighting A War On Terror Because The Enemy Attacked Us First, And Hit Us Hard. ... Al Qaeda's Leadership Has Said They Have The Right To Kill Four Million Americans,... For Nearly Six Years Now, The United States Has Been Able To Defeat Their Attempts To Attack Us Here At Home. Nobody Can Guarantee That We Won't Be Hit Again.