Uh...I said look, when you become president you have to kill people.

"I remember the first conversation I ever had with him, during the campaign. Uh...I said look, when you become president you have to kill people. And are you willing to pull the trigger? Are you willing to do that side of the job? And then he got very silent and looked at me in a very steely kind of way and said, 'I know that. And I can do that."

--Richard Clarke, on talking to Obama prior to his election.