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There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

Less about politics, 'The Path to 9/11' focused on the emergence of radical Islamic terror as a clear and present American threat.

On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

Before 9/11, absolutely, there were concerns about terrorism; but the world fundamentally changed.

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.

I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.