Security Failure Quotes

I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.

What good does it do to spend millions to protect ourselves against espionage if our secrets just leak away.

How is it that Nigeria's military, which has a good record across West Africa, cannot claim back to 14 out of 774 local governorates from Boko Haram? They have to ask for mercenaries from South Africa? How the mighty has fallen!

Gox was a pattern of poor operations, poor customer service, poor PR. You can't just take bitcoin and hide.

The mission of the Secret Service (to keep the president of the United States safe and secure) is, by its very nature, pivotal to the proper functioning of the country, and any failure to accomplish this mission has the potential to cause an immediate international crisis.

The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

It's a huge gap in security, it's a huge problem we've had with our immigration system for many years.

Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?

After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country.

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

I wish we had been doing diplomatic security in Benghazi. I can tell you that Benghazi would not have happened if Blackwater were on the job there.

We have the worst security!

I don't think the Port Authority does a good enough job in anything that they do, quite honestly, but clearly in the area of security. Those cops get paid more than N.Y.P.D. cops, and quite honestly - I know I'm going to get into trouble for saying this - they're nothing more than mall cops.

We will stop 99 per cent of the attacks. But one per cent of attacks might get through and that is what I am saying.

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam, whenever there is a diversion, you protect the principal. The principal, in this case Malcolm, clearly was not protected on February 21st [1965].

In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Geraldo has returned to the states. See? I told you airline security was a joke.

I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure.

My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans - two diplomats and, now it's public so I can say, two CIA operatives.

Our border security is laughable.

Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government.