And I would say this, Peter -- one of the things we have learned throughout our time here is you do not get to pick what events you deal with.
Given this history, and the fact that Abdelmutallab himself indicated at the time of his capture that more attacks were being planned, now is clearly not the time to let our guard down on monitoring who is here from overseas and why.
Well, that day of reckoning has arrived, and the time to take charge of our future is here.
There is a deeper issue here that is not going away any time soon: our electronics, and the data they hold, have become extensions of who we are.
"My aim, whatever time I have here, is to build up our squad and not to get rid our any of our first-team players, " he added.
At the same time, we have to renew our economic strength here at home, which is the foundation of our strength around the world.
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"Our goal now is to deliver the music that was buried here for a long time - everything we play was written and composed by us in the 1980s, " he recalls.
Now it is time for him to go near our God, for he has accomplished his mission here on earth.
The point here is that we are reading the most significant economic story of our time and its effect on the psyche of the people who should know better is minimal.
One, this is not a time to take -- to use the metaphor -- take our foot off the accelerator here.
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"With the children being home and they're seeing snow for the first time and just so many new things, our focus right now is just on the fact that we're here and we're able to live these moments with them, " she said.
Small business has historically been a powerful engine of job creation and yet it is shying away from one of the biggest growth opportunities of our time: the Clean Economy, broadly defined here to include not only renewable energy, public mass transit, and waste treatment but all goods and services with environmental benefits.
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