Jay Weatherill Quotes

Defense comes with defensive concepts.

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.

I'm not working at the Chevron, although I'd probably be the best person to work the night shift. Look at me. Nobody would try to steal a Snickers on my watch.

The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

My first priority is trying to protect my family.

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.

As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

The intelligence community, not wanting to be caught napping, tends to over-warn rather than under-warn.

We cannot put limitations on ourselves to protect ourselves. We have to put limitations on the enemy.

I fear, my Lords, it is too much the temper of this country to be insensible of the approach of danger, until it comes with accumulated terror upon us.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

When you’re reactive [in foreign policy] you often arrive on the scene too late.

We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge. If we wait for threats to fully materialize we will have waited too long.

A certain degree of preparation for war ... affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

No American President should ever take any option off the table.

The best war is the one that doesn’t have to be fought, and the best military is the one capable and versatile enough to deter the next war in the first place.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies

A more worldly and competent foreign and defence policy is by far the preferred first line of defence - rather than the default position of relying on expensive but problematic hardware.

I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.

You just hope that we haven't soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to time, of using force because Iraq has been such a debacle. That would be tragic because Iran is a grave threat.