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The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority.

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

The president's priority is to protect the safety and security of the American people. That's the physical security of the American people as well as the prosperity of the American people.

Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.