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In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks.

In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens with extinction.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world.

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.