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We Have To Deal With This New Type Of Threat In A Way We Haven’t Yet Defined. . . . With A Low-probability, High-impact Event Like This . . . If There’s A One Percent Chance That Pakistani Scientists Are Helping Al Qaeda Build Or Develop A Nuclear Weapon, We Have To Treat It As A Certainty In Terms Of Our Response.

We Live In A Free Society, And Freedom Means Freedom For Everybody. We Shouldn't Be Able To Choose And Say, 'you Get To Live Free And You Don't.' That Means People Should Be Free To Enter Into Any Kind Of Relationship They Want To Enter Into. Like Joe (lieberman), I'm Also Wrestling With The Extent To Which There Ought To Be Legal Sanction Of Those Relationships. I Think We Ought To Do Everything We Can To Tolerate And Accommodate Whatever Kind Of Relationships People Want To Enter Into.

If We Have Reason To Believe Someone Is Preparing An Attack Against The U.s., Has Developed That Capability, Harbours Those Aspirations, Then I Think The U.s. Is Justified In Dealing With That, If Necessary, By Military Force.

The Good Lord Didn't See Fit To Put Oil And Gas Only Where There Are Democratically Elected Regimes Friendly To The United States. Occasionally We Have To Operate In Places Where, All Things Considered, One Would Not Normally Choose To Go. But, We Go Where The Business Is.

And The Fact Of The Matter Is There Were Thousands Of People That Went Through Those Training Camps In Afghanistan. We Know They Are Seeking Deadlier Weapons - Chemical, Biological And Nuclear Weapons If They Can Get It.