We have to be successful in this endeavor because we -- if we're not successful it makes our job, in terms of evacuation and providing relief, even more dangerous and more difficult,

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

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.