Hugh Hewitt: I know in your briefings, you’ve talked to a lot of experts, I know you’ve read The Looming Tower and America Alone, and all these different things, which branch of Islam, the Sunni or the Shia, do you think is more of an immediate threat to American interests?

Governor Mitt Romney: Well, you know, that’s a pretty difficult call to make, because in the case of the Sunni, you have al Qaeda, for instance, which is most frightening in that it carried out the attack on the World Trade Center, and it continues to look for weapons to use to attack us, and maybe planning an attack even as we speak. So from an immediate standpoint, they certainly come to mind. Then you think, look at the Shia Muslims, and the extreme among the Shia, and that includes Hezbollah, it also includes someone like Ahmadinejad, who is seeking nuclear weaponry. And in terms of the long-term implications of a world that has a nuclear bomb in the hand of a terrorist-sponsoring state, that’s also very frightening. So it’s…both are very painful, awful circumstances to consider.

Mitt Romney a day after winning the GOP presidential debate