“We’re safer, but we’re not safe. ... We’re not sure we can stop 100

“We’re safer, but we’re not safe. ... We’re not sure we can stop 100 percent of them.”

Mike McConnell

National intelligence director, on concern of “sleeper cells” of would-be terrorists inside the United States.

“At the outset I would like to note that this is my testimony. Although I have briefed my assessment and recommendations to my chain of command, I wrote this testimony myself. It has not been cleared by nor shared with anyone in the Pentagon, the White House or the Congress until it was just handed out.”

Gen. David Petraeus

At the House joint hearing on Iraq.