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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

Do not form your judgment about our military doctrine from the assessments given by NATO representatives.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

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.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.