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Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization. But they're not here in large numbers. But al Qaeda doesn't have to be anywhere in large numbers.

Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.

Some might say that that while al Qaeda the organization may be basically dead, its ideology continues to thrive and to inspire 'lone wolves' to attack the United States.

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

Your parents' al Qaeda was a very different model than the threat we face today.

Al-Qaida is a worldwide organization. It's a continuous threat.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.