Given on September 12, 2005. Transcribed by Reg.

Thank you very much. It's great to be with you and thank you so much for that kind introduction, Dave, and for that warm welcome. Well,I'm very happy to be here.
I came in from Amsterdam at noon on a business meeting and I drove down from New York City this evening. And, I was in Amsterdam yesterday on business and people were, - we were all reflecting on the fact that it's been four years since the terrible events of September (pause) 11th. Four years. My Dutch friends, my Israeli friends that I was there for a business meeting with were all (in audible). And they were all expressing concern for our country, especially in the aftermath of the hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast and what seems to have been a discoordinated, uncoordinated, ineffective, slow, bewildering lack of responsiveness, which still hasn't been sorted out. But it created an image abroad of an America that somehow have lost the expertise and the leadership and the power to take care of its own people and to deal with its own future.