"Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?"

"A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism"

"The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism"

"While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together"

"Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society"

"The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public"

"Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint"

"Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military"

"The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy"

"In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession"

"One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)"