I don’t want to say this, but this is why we have to have all the attributes of what we’re planning at the White House.

We need the ballroom.

In light of this evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our difference peacefully.

The man has been captured. They are going to his apartment; I guess he lives in California.

He's a sick person, a very sick person.

We wanted to stay tonight—I will tell you, I fought like hell to stay—but it was protocol.

It’s always shocking when something like this happens. It’s happened to me a little bit.

I heard a noise and sort of thought it was a tray. I thought it was a tray going down; I've heard that many times, and it was a pretty loud noise. It was from quite far away. He hadn't reached the area at all. They really got him.

It was quite far away, but it was a gun.

I probably should have gone down even faster.

I was all set to really rip it. I said to my people, “This would be the most inappropriate speech ever made,” so I have to save it.

I think I am going to be nice and boring the next time.

I have studied assassinations... they always go for the most impactful people, like Abraham Lincoln.

They don’t go after the ones who don’t do much. I hate to say I'm honored by that, but I've done a lot...

We have done a lot.

We've changed this country, and there are a lot of people that are not happy about that.

The room was very, very secure. He charged from 50 yards away. He was very far away from the room.

My impression is that he was a lone wolf, a whackjob.

These are crazy people, and they have to be dealt with.

I can't be so concerned that you can't function. It's a dangerous profession.

You know, I tell the story—race car drivers, I think it’s very dangerous. So if you take 1% and then take about 10% of 1%, just to break it down very easily, they die. So, much less than 1%—10% of 1%.

I think bull riding is very dangerous. If you take about the same—10% of 1%—much less than 1%.

But if you take presidents, it’s 5.8%, and about 8% are shot at.

Nobody told me this was such a dangerous profession. If Marco would have told me, maybe I wouldn't have run.

Maybe I would have said, "I'll take a pass."

It's a dangerous profession, but I don't view it that way. Look, I'm here to do a job. It's part of the job. It is a dangerous—I can't imagine that there's any profession that's more dangerous.

This is not going to deter me from winning the war in Iran.

I don’t know if that has anything to do with this; I really don’t think so, based on what we know.

We're going to continue to do a great job; that's all I can do.

We can’t let Iran get a nuclear weapon—everything will be peanuts compared to that.

The witness, Helen Mabus, a volunteer working the event who said she is from Harrisburg, Pa., described a “makeshift room” near the entrance where bar carts were being stored and where “there was no security” at the time.

“He was in that room... he grabbed it out of a bag or something,” Mabus said, adding that the weapon “was long” and “didn’t look like a typical gun.”

“He put it together and ran towards the stairs to go down to the ballroom,” she said.