“When you close six embassies in a region in the world, you send a message to the world that not only have the terrorists made us blink, but we have written off a large number of people in a part of the world.”
“When you think of the coordination this took, it's historic. When you think of the measures that will have to be put into place to ratchet up security in the United States, it's monumental. This opens up a new era in the history of terrorism.”