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Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

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

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

Public discussion of how we determine al Qaeda intentions, I just - I can't see how that can do anything but harm the security of the nation.

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

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 is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

Al Qaeda likes to coordinate, have a central command to be able to send out emissaries around that they have highly trained and say, 'This is the moment we're going to do a large-scale attack.'

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.