[Bill Clinton] That's one thing George Bush said that was right: The President is
the Decider-in-Chief. Nobody can make that decision for you.
Look, he knew what would happen. Suppose the Navy SEALs had gone in there and
it hadn't been Bin Laden. Suppose that they had been captured or killed.
The downside would have been horrible for him.
But he reasoned: "I cannot, in good conscience, do nothing."
He took the harder, and the more honorable path.
And the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result.
[Wolf Blitzer, CNN] (Reads quote)
He was referring to the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
What did he mean by that? Because it's generated a little controversy, given Osama bin Laden's
role in killing - what? Three thousand Americans on 9/11?
[Bill Clinton] He had to decide.
And that's what you hire a president to do.
You hire the President to make the calls when no one else can do it.