preventive actions Quotes

President Bush insisted that there was nothing in the August 6th, 2001 briefing, which was titled 'Bin Laden determined to attack the United States', that hinted what bin Laden was up to. Bush says that he would have moved mountains to stop the attack. Yeah, but he draws the line at reading a memo.

Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.

Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

If you sit around and wring your hands as they're all doing now until something happens to a major American city, then it is too late.

A terrorist can attack at any time at any place using a range of techniques. It is physically impossible to defend at every time in every location against every conceivable technique of terrorism. Therefore, if your goal is to stop it, you cannot stop it by defense. You can only stop it by taking the battle to the terrorists, where they are and going after them.

It's a conversation that nobody really likes to have, and it seems that we never can get to a solution with it and something horrific happens. We all stand back and say, "How could we let that happen?" and then it goes away and we move on.

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

I think we're going to have to take a hard look about what more we can do to prevent this kind of lone wolf attack.