President George W. Bush, during a visit to Quantico: “These 24 months have been a time of progress against the enemy. Terrorists have lost their training camps in Afghanistan. They lost the protection of the Taliban. Al Qaeda has lost nearly two-thirds of its known leaders. They’ve either been captured, or they’ve been killed. Terror networks have lost access to some $200 million, which we have frozen or seized in more than 1,400 terrorist accounts around the world. The terrorists have lost a sponsor in Iraq. And no terrorist networks will ever gain weapons of mass destruction from Saddam Hussein’s regime. That regime is no more.”
– Transcript, “President Bush Discusses Homeland Security at the FBI Academy,” George W. Bush – White House Archives online, Accessed on 7/27/2016