i want to return america to the principles that made this nation great. our founders began with this great american experiment. they created a nation conceived in liberty, and then trusted with us the duty to preserve it and to defend it. in the generation since, more than a million americans have made the ultimate sacrifice. one day toward the end of my term as governor, my office got a call telling us that a soldier had been killed in iraq. his casket was on a u.s. airways flight back to massachusetts but his family hadn t been able to be notified in time to get to the airport to receive his remains. and so they asked if i would go to the airport in their stead. i said of course. we drove over to the airport out on to the tarmac. the jet came in and the people disembarked. and then the luggage began
our personal freedoms have also been under attack. we have the right to choose our own health care. i m count on the supreme court to say exactly that. have you heard this story about one family who runs a small business in idaho. they saved enough money to buy a piece of property and build a home on it. but just a few days after they broke ground, an epa regulator told them to stop digging immediately. they said it was sit on the wetteland. they said they couldn t build and it couldn t even be appealed. fortunately they appealed to the supreme court and they let them build, just like they should. this administration s attack on freedom extends even to rights explicitly guaranteed by the constitution, the right to bear arms is so plainly stated, so unambiguous the liberals have a hard time challenging it directly. instead, they ve been employing every imaginable ruse and ploy to restrict it and to defeat it. i applaud true conservationists like rod keck. i applaud ambassador
shot president reagan or to serial killers or to bernie madoff, the precedent you set in doing so can someday end thusly, someday for some crap reason somebody will be able to arrest you mr. mccain and claim you are not entitled to your miranda rights and perhaps you should be tried by a military court. while you pander to a group that tries to dress up bitching as paying their fair share of taxes that the government is taking away freedom, you propose that government should take away freedom. you shame yourself in the eyes of your fellow veterans and the honored dead who gave their lives to protect the freedoms and the laws. you have today suggested should be optional. freedom-loving americans look back with horror at what could have happened on saturday night six blocks from here. and we also look back with horror at how a man who thinks america is some kind of brand name who does not respect the
lunatic fringe in arizona. this man, whatever other reprehensible thing he appears to be, is an american citizen. and if you can decide that he shouldn t have the same rights we would give to the man that shot president reagan or to serial killers or to bernie madoff, the precedent you set in doing so can someday end thusly, someday for some crap reason somebody will be able to arrest you mr. mccain and claim you are not entitled to your miranda rights and perhaps you should be tried by a military court. while you pander to a group that tries to dress up bitching as paying their fair share of taxes that the government is taking away free adodom, you propose t the government should take away freedom. you shame yourself in the eyes of your fellow veterans and the honored dead who gave their lives to protect the freedoms and the laws. you have today suggested should be optional. freedom-loving americans look back with horror at what could
is to force us to live in fear and thereby amplifying the effects of their attacks. as americans and as a nation, we will not be terrorized. we will not cower in fear. we will not be intimidated. we will be vigilant and we will work together and we will protect and defend the country we love to ensure a safe and prosperous future for our people. let s turn to michael sheehan, former counterterror official for the city of new york. thanks for coming in. thank you. what does this saga tell you about the quality of training being given at these so-called camps and the quality of the trainees? well, cleerm, the train yes was a good recruit, a naturalized citizen, a guy with a masters degree. he was able to travel. how he bungled this is a mystery. the training camps, some of them are very, very good. they are conducting sophisticated attacks in afghanistan and pakistan. suicide bombs all the time.