Quotes About Prevention

What is our capability when someone posts a public social media posting that says that they're going to conduct attacks on the United States on behalf of the Islamic State. Why can't we pick up that information and then stop that act of terror?

Terror must be attacked from where it originates. Otherwise, you will only be defending yourself against terror.

We need to take lessons learned from fighting terrorism and apply them to cyber crime.

The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.

Our country will continue efforts to prevent terrorism in close cooperation with the United States and the international community.

The biggest danger of this terrorism and extremism is the tarnishing of the reputation of our beloved religion... We will not allow this to happen.

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

We need to do more to prevent radicalization, the inspiration of terrorism in this country.

The probability that we will get into a car accident is a million times higher than the probability we will suffer as a result of terrorist act.

I think, for me, anybody who is a terrorist should not have access to firearms.

It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

I am not opposed to government efforts to stop terrorist plots. We are still seared by the memory of 9/11, and we should be.

I think, in the wake of Sept. 11, it's important for the American public to understand that to the extent that there are individuals within the United States who would undertake terrorist attacks, that we are doing something to address that.

No one is born a terrorist, but the route to become one is surprisingly easy. We need to listen to those who have been there, and those who have made their way back, if we want to stop others from taking their first steps down this same path into darkness.

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely know what they're talking about.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, it became clear that the FBI's number one priority must be the prevention of another terrorist attack.

With awareness and a social movement against extremism, we can prevent our children from becoming terrorists.

It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.