Journalist Bob Woodward wrote: “During my Oval Office interview with the President [Barack Obama, on July 10, 2009], Obama volunteered some extended thoughts about terrorism: ‘I said very early on, as a senator, and continued to believe as a presidential candidate and now as president, that we can absorb a terrorist attack. …We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever, that ever took place on our soil, we absorbed it and we are stronger. This is a strong, powerful country that we live in, and our people are incredibly resilient.’ ”
– Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars, Page 363