We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.

When a country is no longer able to say who can and who cannot come in & out, especially for reasons of safety & security – big trouble!

They are working to destroy our country’s morale and create chaos by deliberately targeting our nation’s peace and targeting civilians with these heinous attacks.

We know there is a sequence of terror attacks and it's quite possible that there is a connection between them, from France, Berlin and now Jerusalem.

Every caller from Mosul takes a risk to call in….death.

As you know France declared an initial state of emergency for three months then prolonged it for another three months. Then they prolonged it for another three months. So there is no obstacle in terms of prolonging it… Initially of course it is three months but after three months we can ask for a second three month period and extend it.

Open to the idea that – for a period yet to be determined – there should be no financing from abroad for the construction of mosques.

The U.S. tells us to give up our nuclear program, is preparing a nuclear attack against us, and on the other hand would tell its allies to have nuclear weapons. Isn't this (a) double standard?