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After 9/11 We Were Prepared To Use Military Force. We Were Prepared To Go After Not Only The Terrorists, But Those Who Sponsor Terror And Provide Sanctuary And Safe Harbor For Them. We Were Prepared To Use Our Intelligence Assets The Way We Would Against An Enemy That Threatened The United States Itself, To Put In Place, For Example, Things Like The Terror Surveillance Program And To Have A Robust Interrogation Program On Detainees. Those Are The Acts You Take When You Feel You're At War And That The Very Existence Of The Nation Is Threatened.

Europeans Know That Their Great Experiment In Building Peace, Unity And Prosperity Cannot Survive As A Privileged Enclave, Surrounded On Its Outskirts By Breeding Grounds Of Hatred And Fanaticism.

I'm Absolutely Convinced That The Threat We Face Now, The Idea Of A Terrorist In The Middle Of One Of Our Cities With A Nuclear Weapon, Is Very Real And That We Have To Use Extraordinary Measures To Deal With It.

The Good Lord Didn't See Fit To Put Oil And Gas Only Where There Are Democratically Elected Regimes Friendly To The United States. Occasionally We Have To Operate In Places Where, All Things Considered, One Would Not Normally Choose To Go. But, We Go Where The Business Is.

We Need To Have A Pro-growth Policy Put In Place That Offers People Hope And Offers The Opportunity For Businesses To Expand And For Them To Have Confidence In What The World Is Going To Look Like For The Next Two Or Three Or Four Years With Respect To Economic Policy.