It's hard to remember a more vicious terrorist insurgency than this one, a more cynical group than these Islamic terrorists. They deserve special criticism and condemnation by the world community for these despicable acts.

Securing our homeland is one of the most important things we do here in Congress, ... (The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks) taught us that we need to tighten our security across the board. The new Northern Border Air Base will go far in sealing up our Canadian border, and that's an important mission.

These are only desperate attempts by the terrorists, ... If you take a look on the abilities of these terrorist groups and also take a look on the new support for Iraq, I believe that the support to Iraq will prevail.

Terrorists have concluded, with the help of many others, that there may be a relationship between a terrorist action and an election in a democracy,

So I see the terrorist attacks as acknowledgement on the terrorists' part that this is a center of gravity [in the war on terror] and that they're losing.

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.