Cofer Black Quotes

Success means eliminating Al Qaeda's ability to launch terrorist attacks against the United States and our allies.

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

Al-Qa’ida members -- including some who are US citizens --have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks.

We have an obligation to go after Al Qaeda wherever they are.

Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.

Bottoms line: terrorists are always at work.

It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.

In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

The campaign against terrorism is going to be global and it's going to be long and there's reason to expect there will be difficulties along the way.

I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

With terrorism becoming the increasing tactic of choice, the military component would become a smaller component of our national security system.

We have not yet, as a nation, made a generation-long commitment to this terrorist threat.

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

Fighting terrorism cannot allow one to be intimidated….We must take this fight to the terrorists.

Your biggest threat is bin Laden!

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.