It takes so little these days to conduct a powerful attack -- a few plane tickets, some local sympathizers, half a million dollars and some determined work from the outside,

We could all be much more effective if we had a fuller relationship which we do hope would be available as the Indonesian armed forces make progress [with the reforms].

We have a relationship with Indonesia and are certainly looking for opportunities to take specific action with Indonesia on actions to combat terrorism which would involve taking down terrorist groups,

I don't think any of us wants to overplay the threat but we don't want to think that we are completely on top of it.

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?

In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations - some nation states, some private and some criminal - that proliferate weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.