These included violent offenders, drug dealers and gang members. This is an important step in ensuring a culture where the law is respected, where the judicial process is observed. Sentences are meaningful, and hard time is served.

With the Hispanic culture, it seems like the first thing you do when you get up on Saturday is turn on the radio, and it's left there on that station, and that's it. It's not like, 'Oh, there's a commercial,' or 'I don't like this song,' and you're changing it all the time.

You do the best you can, looking at precedent, in trying to anticipate where the Supreme Court is going to draw the balance between the protection of civil liberties and protecting the national security, and in some cases, we guessed wrong.

Some in this country mistakenly believed it could not happen here, ... Today we have chilling evidence that it is possible.

Had these four defendants succeeded in their alleged plots, their attacks would have taken an untold number of Americans.

As the court noted today, the authority to detain enemy combatants like Jose Padilla plays an important role in protecting American citizens from the very kind of savage attack that took place almost four years ago to the day,