People should think of the war on terror as being like the war on crime--- a struggle in which success is measured not by final victory but by declines in incidence and seriousness of attacks.
Military security and a policy of detente are not contradictory but complementary.
It is necessary that we eliminate the scourge of terrorism in all its forms, without any discrimination, and end the ecosystem of its support.
The terrorist threat has decreased in some ways, because Bin Laden is dead.
The administration points out that no major terrorist acts have occurred on American soil since 9/11. Clearly, we must be doing something right, they say, and maybe we don’t need to do much more--- at least not at home.
Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
I can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.
The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.
We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack.
The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated
