"We have to be realistic and expect that there will be additional successful attacks."

"We have to be realistic and expect that there will be additional successful attacks."
-- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
During a question-and-answer session with several hundred sailors and Marines aboard the USS Essex, a helicopter carrier in port at Singapore with several other ships of the Essex strike group.
"Fifteen years has marked tremendous progress economically, but still the biggest obstacle is political."
-- Wu'er Kaixi
Protest leader who survived the June 4, 1989, assault on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, speaking from the United States. Police kept Tiananmen Square free of demonstrators Friday, detaining at least 16 people while activists abroad marked the 15th anniversary of the deadly attack.