"From the start, America and our allies have protected our people by staying on the offense. The enemy knows that the days of comfortable sanctuary, easy movement, steady financing, and free flowing communications are long over. For the terrorists, life since 9/11 has never been the same."
- We stopped an al Qaeda plot to fly a hijacked airplane into the tallest building on the West Coast."For each life saved, we owe a debt of gratitude to the brave public servants who devote their lives to finding the terrorists and stopping them." /sustained applause/- We broke up a Southeast Asian terrorist cell grooming operatives for attacks inside the United States.
- We uncovered an al Qaeda cell developing anthrax to be used in attacks against America.
- And just last August, British authorities uncovered a plot to blow up passenger planes bound for America over the Atlantic Ocean.