Hindsight Alone Is Not Wisdom.

In Iraq We Are Fighting Against Men With Blind Hatred And Armed With Lethal Weapons Who Are Capable Of Any Atrocity. They Wear No Uniform; They Respect No Laws Of Warfare Or Morality. They Take Innocent Lives To Create Chaos For The Cameras.

Look, History Is Interesting. I Read Three Books On George Washington Last Year. And My Opinion Is That If They're Still Analyzing The First President, The 43rd President Ought To Be Doing What He Thinks Is Right. And Eventually, Historians Will Come And Realize Whether... The Decisions I Made Made Sense.

There Is A Difference Between Responsible Criticism That Aims For Success And Defeatism That Refuses To Acknowledge Anything But Failure. Hindsight Alone Is Not Wisdom, And Second-guessing Is Not A Strategy.

Time Is Passing. Yet, For The United States Of America, There Will Be No Forgetting September The 11th. We Will Remember Every Rescuer Who Died In Honor. We Will Remember Every Family That Lives In Grief. We Will Remember The Fire And Ash, The Last Phone Calls, The Funerals Of The Children.

My Fellow Citizens, The Dangers To Our Country And The World Will Be Overcome. We Will Pass Through This Time Of Peril And Carry On The Work Of Peace. We Will Defend Our Freedom. We Will Bring Freedom To Others And We Will Prevail.