    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2004, Book I)]
    [April 19, 2004]
    [Pages 603-611]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Remarks in Hershey, Pennsylvania
    April 19, 2004

        Thank you all very much. Thanks for letting me come. [Laughter] It's
    good to be here in Hershey, Pennsylvania. For a fellow who likes
    chocolate--[laughter]--this is a special place. I know that Milton
    Hershey, who was one of the country's great entrepreneurs, would be
    incredibly proud of the way this community has prospered and grown. I
    bet he'd be especially proud of the hospital that we saw coming in.
    The Senators with
    whom I was traveling pointed out the fantastic hospital facilities. I'm
    told that this is a community where people really care deeply about
    their neighbors and the quality of life in the community in which they
    live. And so I want to thank the citizens from Hershey for being so
    gracious and warm and setting such a good example.
        I want to thank the community leaders who are here from around the
    great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I appreciate your service to our
    country. It's a tough job to serve at the local level. [Laughter] When
    things go wrong, your name is right there in the phonebook. [Laughter]
    But we share a common calling, and that's public service, serving our
    Nation. I want to thank you for doing what you're doing. It's such an
    honor, isn't it, to serve the people of our respective communities and
    our Nation.
        And you and I know what our first responsibility is. The first
    responsibility,

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    whether it be Washington, DC, or Washington Township, is the safety of
    our citizens. That's a solemn duty we have, to work together to make
    sure that our Nation is as secure as it can possibly be. The task, our
    mutual tasks, our joint obligation, changed dramatically on September
    the 11th, 2001. There's now an urgency to our duty. We have a urgent
    duty to do everything we can to fulfill our solemn obligation.
        There are people here in this world who still want to hurt us. See,
    they can't stand America. They can't stand us because we love certain
    things and we're not going to change. We love our freedom. We love the
    fact that we can worship freely any way we see fit. We love the fact
    that we can speak our minds freely. We love our free political process.
    We love every aspect of freedom, and we refuse to change. These
    terrorists will not be stopped by their own conscience. They don't have
    a conscience. But they will be stopped. They will be stopped because our
    great Nation is resolute abroad, we're vigilant at home, and we are
    absolutely determined to prevail.
        I appreciate Donna's invitation and her
    introduction. She handled it very well. [Laughter] I want to thank Keith
    Hite, the executive director, for having me
    here as well. Keith, thank you for your hospitality. I want to thank the
    boards of directors, the trustees, and the members of the Pennsylvania
    State Association of Township Supervisors.
        I appreciate the first-responders who are here today. Thank you for
    your service.
        I've traveled in a small little limo from the airport with Senators
    Specter and Santorum, two really fine United States Senators from the
    Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I flew down from Washington with
    Congressman Todd Platts and Congressman Bill
    Shuster from Pennsylvania. Thank you both for
    traveling with me. I am grateful that Congressman Tim Holden has joined us today. Thank you for being here,
    Congressman. I appreciate you coming.
        Attorney General Jerry Pappert is here
    with us. General, I appreciate you being here today. Charlie Dent, a member of the State house, is with us;
    Paul Semmel--actually, Dent is in the State
    senate. Semmel is in the State house. These are members of the Veterans
    Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committees. These are people in the
    State legislature with whom you work to make sure the State of
    Pennsylvania is properly prepared for anything that may come along.
        I appreciate so very much the other State and local officials who
    are here. Thanks for taking time to come. I appreciate Mike Lutz, who is the president of the Fraternal Order of Police
    Pennsylvania State Lodge, for being here. Mike, thank you for your time,
    and thank you for coming.
        Two other people I want to mention before I get going. [Laughter] I
    had the honor of meeting Major Dick Winters. Dick Winters is a World War II veteran. There's an HBO
    miniseries called ``The Band of Brothers.'' He led the platoon in World
    War II. I told him when I got off the airplane, it was such an honor to
    meet him. It's such a fine example that he and others have set for those
    brave souls who now wear our Nation's uniform. Major Winters, I'm glad
    you're here. And I also want to thank the other members of our military
    who joined us today as well. Thank you all for coming.
        When I landed, I met a fellow at the airport named Patrick
    Leonard. Where are you, Pat? Oh there you
    are, sure. How quickly they forget. [Laughter] You're wondering why I
    mentioned Pat Leonard? I'll tell you why. The strength of America is in
    the hearts and souls of our citizens. That's our strength. Listen,
    people say America is strong because of our military. We got a strong
    military, and I intend to keep it that way. They say America is strong
    because we're the wealthiest nation. That's good. We need to keep it
    that way. But the real reason we're strong is because

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    of the hearts and souls of American citizens. That's why we're strong.
        Pat Leonard volunteers. He takes time
    out of a busy life and a family life to volunteer at the fire
    department. That's what he does. He's a volunteer fireman. As a matter
    of fact, he is the chief of the Hershey Volunteer Fire Company. He has
    been doing this for 26 years. It's more than just volunteering for the
    fire department, though, see. He also volunteers to mentor children by
    being a coach at all kinds of different sports teams.
        The reason I bring up Pat--and I want to
    thank his mom and dad for being here, by the way, and two brothers who
    happen to be volunteer firemen. The reason I bring him up is because I
    want our citizens to understand that if you really want to help America,
    take time out of your life and help save a soul. And you can do it all
    kinds of ways. You can mentor a child. You can help the elderly. You can
    volunteer at the fire department. You can be a Boy Scout or Girl Scout
    leader. There's all kinds of ways you can help. I bet most of you are
    doing this already. You represent the true strength of the country.
    We're a compassionate, decent nation, a nation of people who are willing
    to love their neighbor just like they'd like to be loved themselves.
        As we gather this afternoon, we're 140 miles away from Shanksville,
    Pennsylvania. This is a place where many innocent lives ended.
    Shanksville is also the place where American citizens stood up to evil,
    charged their attackers, and began the first counter-offensive in the
    war on terror. Those passengers on Flight 93 showed that the spirit of
    America is strong and brave in the face of danger, and this Nation will
    always honor their memory.
        The best way to secure our homeland, the best way for us to do our
    duty, is to stay on the offensive against the terrorist network. We
    began the offense shortly after September the 11th. We're carrying out a
    broad strategy, a worldwide strategy to bring the killers to justice.
    The best way to secure America is to bring them to justice before they
    hurt us again, which is precisely what the United States of America will
    continue to do.
        Two-thirds of known Al Qaida leaders have been captured or killed.
    We're making progress. It's a different kind of war than the war that
    Major Winters fought in. This is a war
    against people who will hide in a cave, a war against people who hide in
    the shadows of remote cities or big cities, and then they strike and
    they kill. And they kill innocent people. They have no--as I said, they
    have no conscience. They have no sense of guilt. But they also know
    we're on their trail, and they will find out there is no cave or hole
    deep enough to hide from American justice.
        We must be determined in this, and we've got a lot of really good
    people, a lot of good people on the move. We're also working with
    nations from around the world, sharing intelligence, making it clear
    that if you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist.
        By the way, when the President of the United States says something,
    he better mean it. And when I said to the world, ``If you harbor a
    terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist,'' I meant exactly
    what I said. And the Taliban found out. It wasn't all that long ago that
    Afghanistan was a training center for Al Qaida killers. It was a safe
    haven. It's a country, by the way, that was run by a brutal--brutal--
    dictatorship. The Taliban had a perverted view of the world. They
    hated--they must have hated women. Women were given no rights. Young
    girls did not go to school. It was a barbaric regime. So not only did we
    uphold doctrine that said, ``If you harbor a terrorist or train a
    terrorist or feed a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist,''
    but we liberated people as well in Afghanistan. People are free in that
    country. Young girls now go to school for the first time in their life,
    thanks to the incredible compassion of the United States of America.

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        There's another very important lesson about September the 11th that
    we must never forget, and that is, we can no longer take threats that
    may exist overseas for granted. In other words, when the President and/
    or anybody else in authority sees a threat, we must take it seriously.
    Now, that doesn't mean every threat must be dealt with by military
    option, but every threat must be viewed as a potential problem to
    America. See, September the 11th changed the equation. It used to be
    that oceans would protect us, that we saw a threat, we didn't have to
    worry about it because there was two vast oceans. And we could pick and
    choose as to how we deal with the threat. That changed on September the
    11th.
        These are vital lessons for our citizens to understand what took
    place. See, we saw a threat, based upon intelligence, in Iraq. The
    intelligence said there's a threat. The very same intelligence looked at
    by the United States Congress caused them to reach the same conclusion.
    The United Nations Security Council looked at the intelligence and said,
    ``Saddam is a threat.'' And so, for about
    the--I can't remember how many times they said it, but they said,
    ``Disarm. See, you're a threat. Disarm.'' There's a reason why a lot of
    people made the conclusion. It was not only based upon intelligence; it
    was based upon the fact that he hated America, that he was willing to
    pay suiciders to go kill people in Israel, that he actually used weapons
    of mass destruction on his own people. See, this is a guy who used it
    before.
        And the equation changed after September the 11th. And so, you see,
    I was in a position where I either took the word of a madman or took the actions necessary to defend America. And
    given that choice, I will defend America every time.
        We will defeat the enemy there so we don't have to face them here.
    And at the same time, we will work to see that Iraq is free, and that's
    really important for our long-term security. See, free nations are
    peaceful nations. Free nations are nations in which people can find hope
    and a chance to raise their families, just the way moms and dads want to
    raise their families here in America. That's why we love freedom, and
    that's why we think freedom is such an important part of a peaceful
    world. This is an historic mission, in my judgment. This is an historic
    opportunity.
        I told the story, I think, at one of these endless press conferences
    I had last week--[laughter]--where--I love them, of course--where--
    [laughter]--where I had dinner with Prime Minister Koizumi of Japan. And it was at that dinner that we were
    talking about the situation in North Korea. And it dawned on me during
    the course of the conversation with my friend that, if we hadn't got it
    right after World War II, would I have been having this conversation
    with the Prime Minister about a common threat we share? And it probably
    wouldn't have. If we hadn't secured the peace in a proper way after
    World War II, I don't think--maybe I'll be wrong, but I don't think I
    would have been having the very kind of conversation I was having with
    Prime Minister Koizumi. And it dawned on me during that conversation,
    when we get it right in Iraq, some American President will be sitting
    down with a duly elected official from Iraq talking about how to keep
    the peace in that troubled part of the world. It's an historic
    opportunity to spread democracy and hope as an alternative to hatred and
    terror and violence for export.
        And it's a difficult mission. It's tough work. It's incredibly hard,
    as we have seen on our television screens the last couple of weeks.
    There's a reason why. Freedom frightens people who are terrorists. The
    worst thing that can happen to a society, if you're a terrorist, is for
    the society to be free. And it scares them. Remember, I told you,
    they'll strike us because of our love for freedom. Well, they strike out
    because a free society is emerging in the

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    heart of a region that is desperate for freedom and democracy.
        And we're facing supporters of the outlaw cleric, remnants of
    Saddam's regime that are still bitter that
    they don't have the position to run the torture chambers and rape rooms
    and get the special privileges they've had for all these years. Of
    course, there's foreign terrorists there, trying to prevent the rise of
    a free government in the heart of the Middle East. They will fail--they
    will fail. They will fail because they do not speak for the vast
    majority of Iraqis who do not want to replace one tyrant with another.
    They will fail because the will of our coalition is strong. They will
    fail because America leads a coalition full of the finest military men
    and women in the world.
        Thousands of Pennsylvanians have given their service in the war on
    terror, including more than 6,000 National Guard and Reserve members on
    active duty today. I want to thank their families for enduring the long
    deployments and separations and sacrifices. I want to thank the men and
    women who wear the uniform. Our Nation is grateful for your sacrifice.
    We are grateful that you have volunteered to make America a more secure
    country and the world a more peaceful and free place.
        The enemy is still active. Think about Bali and Istanbul. Or as we
    saw in the murder of 200 citizens in Madrid, the terrorists use violence
    to spread fear and disrupt elections. They want us to panic. That's
    their intent. Their intent is to say, ``Let's create panic among the
    civilized world.'' They want nations to turn upon each other, civilized
    nations to argue and debate about the mission. You know, they're not
    going to shake our will. I'll say as plainly as I can to them: You'll
    never shake the will of the United States of America. We're not going to
    forget September the 11th. We are determined. We are resolute, and we
    will bring you to justice.
        And in the process, we've made some fundamental changes in the way
    we defend ourself. We reorganized--or organized a new Department of
    Homeland Security to protect the country. It was hard work in the
    Senate. I want to thank Senator Specter and
    Senator Santorum and the Members of the House
    who are here. We had a big debate about it, but it was the right thing
    to do. It was the right thing to bring agencies involved with the
    protection of the homeland under one umbrella agency, so we can better
    coordinate and better communicate and better strategize as to how to
    protect the homeland.
        And I picked a good man to run--become the first Secretary of
    Homeland Security. Looks like I don't even have to
    say his name. [Laughter] You trained him well. [Laughter] No, Ridge is
    doing a great job.
        Since 2001, we've tripled funding for homeland security. That's
    important. We've trained and deployed screeners at airports, put
    thousands of air marshals on flights. We're now fingerprinting visitors
    when they come to America and compare the prints to those of suspected
    terrorists and violent criminals. In other words, we've made prevention
    of terror an important priority of our Government--just doing everything
    we can to make sure that we're as safe as we possibly can be.
        The FBI now has the prevention of terrorist attacks as their number
    one priority. They'll still chase down criminals and make a case, but
    since we're at war and since this is a big, free country, the priority
    of the Federal Government is now the prevention of another attack. And
    we're making sure they got the resources necessary to do their job.
        We're standing behind our first-responders. Since the moment our
    country was attacked, our Nation's police and firefighters and emergency
    service personnel have played a critical role in the defense of America
    against any threat of terror. They really have. It was a--we saw the
    incredible bravery of the first-responders in New York

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    City. I think it--I think those who are firefighters and police and
    emergency personnel gained a new degree of respect on the streets of the
    cities throughout our country, when they witnessed the great courage of
    their brothers who rushed into collapsing buildings. We appreciate the
    fact that these men and women understand they could be on the frontline
    against terror at any moment, that they have accepted great
    responsibilities. And we have responsibilities to you as well.
        I've proposed an additional $3.6 billion for terrorism preparedness
    grants. This is a way to help our first-responders get ready. The money
    needs to make sure we don't get it stuck in the process, stuck from
    going from the Federal Government to the State government to the local
    government. This money needs to get the local communities in a timely
    fashion so you can put it to good work.
        After September the 11th, we took another vital step to fight
    terror, and that's what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about
    the PATRIOT Act. It's a law that I signed into law. It's a law that was
    overwhelmingly passed in the House and the Senate. It's a law that is
    making America safer. It's an important piece of legislation.
        First, before September the 11th, law enforcement, intelligence, and
    national security officials were prevented by legal and bureaucratic
    restrictions from sharing critical information with each other and with
    State and local police departments. We had--one group of the FBI knows
    something, but they couldn't talk to the other group in the FBI because
    of law and bureaucratic interpretation. You cannot fight the war on
    terror unless all bodies of your government at the Federal, State, and
    local level are capable of sharing intelligence on a real-time basis. We
    could not get a complete picture of terrorist threats, therefore. People
    had--different people had a piece of the puzzle, but because of law,
    they couldn't get all the pieces in the same place.
        And so we removed those barriers, removed the walls. You hear the
    talk about the walls that separated certain aspects of Government. They
    have been removed by the PATRIOT Act, and now, law enforcement and
    intelligence communities are working together to share information to
    better prevent an attack on America.
        And let me give you an interesting story. In late 2001, in Portland,
    Oregon--and today, I was briefed on this story by the--the Federal
    prosecutor up there in Oregon--or over there. I'm used to Texas, still.
    [Laughter] Everything was ``up there.'' [Laughter]
        Police in Portland, Oregon, turned up evidence about a local man who
    was planning attacks on Jewish schools and synagogues and on American
    troops overseas. The initial information was passed to the FBI and to
    intelligence services--quickly passed--who analyzed the threat and took
    action. See, the PATRIOT Act allowed for unprecedented cooperation, and
    because of the surveillance tools enacted by the PATRIOT Act, the FBI
    learned that this guy was a part of a seven-man terrorist cell. In other
    words, the PATRIOT Act gave local--Federal law enforcement officials, in
    this case--the capacity to better understand the intelligence and to
    better understand the nature of the terrorist cell. And now the cell has
    been disrupted.
        I'll tell you another good thing that happened. Before September the
    11th, investigators had better tools to fight organized crime than to
    fight international terrorism. That was the reality. For years, law
    enforcement used so-called roving wiretaps to investigate organized
    crime. You see, what that meant is if you got a wiretap by court order--
    and by the way, everything you hear about requires court order, requires
    there to be permission from a FISA court, for example. So the crime
    boss, he'd be on the cell phone, maybe thinking somebody is listening to
    him, would toss the cell

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    phone and get on another cell phone. And the law allowed for our drug-
    busters to follow the person making the calls, not just a single phone
    number. So it made it more difficult for a drug lord to evade the net
    that we were trying to throw on him to capture him with.
        We couldn't use roving wiretaps for terrorists. In other words,
    terrorists could switch phones, and we couldn't follow them. The PATRIOT
    Act changed that, and now we have the essential tool. See, with court
    approval, we have long used roving wiretaps to lock up monsters--
    mobsters. Now we have a chance to lock up monsters, terrorist monsters.
    [Laughter]
        The PATRIOT Act authorizes what are called delayed notification
    search warrants. I'm not a lawyer, either. [Laughter] These allow law
    enforcement personnel, with court approval, to carry out a lawful search
    without tipping off suspects and giving them a chance to flee or destroy
    evidence. It is an important part of conducting operations against
    organized groups.
        Before September the 11th, the standards for these kind of warrants
    were different around the country. It made it hard to have kind of a
    national strategy to chase down what might be a terrorist group. The
    PATRIOT Act provided a clear national standard and now allows these
    warrants to be used in terrorism cases. And they're an important tool
    for those who are on the frontline of using necessary means, with court
    order, to find these terrorists before they hurt us. Look, what I'm
    telling you is, is that the PATRIOT Act made it easier for people we've
    tasked to protect America. That's what we want. We want people to have
    the tools necessary to do the job we expect them to do.
        Before September the 11th, law enforcement could more easily obtain
    business and financial records of white-collar criminals than of
    suspected terrorists. See, part of the way to make sure that we catch
    terrorists is we chase money trails. And yet it was easier to chase a
    money trail with a white-collar criminal than it was a terrorist. The
    PATRIOT Act ended this double standard, and it made it easier for
    investigators to catch suspected terrorists by following paper trails
    here in America.
        And finally, before September the 11th, Federal judges could often
    impose tougher prison terms on drug traffickers than they could on
    terrorists. The PATRIOT Act strengthened the penalties for crimes
    committed by terrorists, such as arsons or attacks on powerplants and
    mass transit systems. In other words, we needed to get--we needed to
    send the signal, at the very minimum, that our laws are going to be
    tough on you. When we catch you, you've got a problem, in America. See,
    that's part of prevention.
        I just outlined five reasons why the PATRIOT Act made sense. These
    are practical reasons. These are ways to give our law enforcement
    officers the tools necessary to do their job so that we can better
    protect America, and we're making progress.
        The last 2\1/2\ years, we've dismantled terrorist cells in Oregon
    and New York and North Carolina and Virginia. We prosecuted terrorist
    operatives and supportives in California, Ohio, Texas, and Florida. In
    other words, we're using these tools to do the best we can possibly do
    to protect our fellow citizens. We've frozen or seized about $200
    million in terrorist assets around the world. When I say ``we,'' this is
    now not only the United States but friends and allies. We're cutting off
    their money. We're following--what was that movie?--``Follow the
    Money.'' That's what we're doing, to make sure that we do our job.
        I want you to keep in mind what I've just told you about the PATRIOT
    Act the next time you hear somebody attacking the PATRIOT Act. The
    PATRIOT Act defends our liberty. The PATRIOT Act makes it able for those
    of us in positions of responsibility to defend the liberty of the
    American people. It's essential law.

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        The reason I bring it up is because many of the PATRIOT Act's
    antiterrorism tools are set to expire next year, including key
    provisions that allow our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to
    share information. In other words, Congress passed it and said, ``Well,
    maybe the war on terror won't go on very long,'' and therefore, these
    tools are set to expire. The problem is, the war on terror continues.
    And yet some Senators and Congressmen not only want to let the
    provisions expire, but they want to roll back some of the act's
    permanent features. And it doesn't make any sense. We can't return to
    the days of false hope. The terrorists declared war on the United States
    of America, and the Congress must give law enforcement all the tools
    necessary to protect the American people.
        So I'm starting today to call on the United States Congress to renew
    the PATRIOT Act and to make all of its provisions permanent. And not
    only that, there are some additional things that Congress should do--
    must do, in my judgment--to strengthen authorities and penalties to
    defend our homeland.
        There's something called administrative subpoenas. This is the
    authority to request certain types of time-sensitive records without the
    delay of going through a judge or a grand jury. These are critical for
    many types of investigations. For example, today they're used for health
    care fraud cases. In other words, those who investigate can use an
    administrative subpoena to run down somebody cheating the health care
    system. Yet, in terrorism cases, where speed is of the essence,
    officials are barred from using administrative subpoenas. That doesn't
    seem to make much sense to me. The American people expect us to do our
    jobs. It seems like we ought to have the very same tool necessary to run
    down a bad doc as to run down a terrorist. And so when Congress
    considers the PATRIOT Act, they ought to be thinking about ways to make
    sure that we've got the capacity of catching terrorists.
        People charged with certain crimes today, including some drug
    offenses, are eligible for bail only in limited circumstances, but
    terrorist-related crimes are not on that list. Think about what that
    means. Suspected terrorists could be released, free to leave the country
    or worse, before their trial. And that doesn't make any sense. The
    disparity makes no sense. If a dangerous drug dealer can be held without
    bail, the Congress should allow the same treatment for terrorists. If we
    want to protect our homeland, let's make sure these good people have got
    the tools necessary to do so.
        And there's another example I want to share with you. Under existing
    law, the death penalty applies to many serious crimes that result in
    death, including sexual abuse and certain drug-related offenses. Some
    terrorist crimes that result in death do not qualify for capital
    punishment. That makes no sense to me. We ought to be sending a strong
    signal: If you sabotage a defense installation or nuclear facility in a
    way that takes an innocent life, you ought to get the death penalty, the
    Federal death penalty.
        The reason why Congress must act is because we have a difficult job
    protecting America. The reason why is because we're an open society that
    values freedom. We stand for the--we're a beacon of freedom, and we say
    you can--our country is an open country. And yet that makes us
    vulnerable--in itself, makes us vulnerable. We got a lot of borders to
    protect. We got to be right 100 percent of the time, at the Federal
    level and the State level and the local level. We've got to be right 100
    percent of the time to protect America, and the terrorists have only got
    to be right one time, as 168 innocent men, women, and children found out
    in Oklahoma City. Different forms of terror--we've got to be vigilant
    against terror at all costs.
        And there's only one path to safety, and that's the path of action.
    Congress must

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    act with the PATRIOT Act. We must continue to stay on the offense when
    it comes to chasing these killers down and bringing them to justice, and
    we will. We've got to be strong and resolute and determined. We will
    never show weakness in the face of these people who have no soul, who
    have no conscience, who care less about the life of a man or a woman or
    a child. We've got to do everything we can here at home, and there's no
    doubt in my mind that, with the Almighty's blessings and hard work, that
    we will succeed in our mission.
        The reason I say that is because I have seen the spirit of this
    country. I've seen the resolve of our Nation. I know the nature of the
    men and women who proudly call themselves Americans, people who can rise
    to any challenge, people who are tough, people who are determined,
    people who are resolute, and people, at the same time, who are
    compassionate and decent and honorable. And it is my honor to be the
    President of a country full of such people.
        May God bless your work. May God continue to bless our country.
    Thank you all.

    Note: The President spoke at 3:20 p.m. at the Hershey Lodge and
    Convention Center. In his remarks, he referred to Donna L. Mindek,
    president, and R. Keith Hite, executive director, Pennsylvania State
    Association of Township Supervisors; Pennsylvania State Attorney General
    Jerry Pappert; State Senator Charles W. Dent and State Representative
    Paul W. Semmel of Pennsylvania; Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of
    Japan; and Muqtada Al Sadr, Iraqi Shiite cleric whose militia engaged in
    an uprising in Iraq in early April. The Office of the Press Secretary
    also released a Spanish language transcript of these remarks.