Quotes About Protection

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.

Our national security is in a place where even my kids are concerned about things like ISIS when they hear about terrorist attacks on American soil.

For years, America has helped protect against terrorist attacks by telling Americans, 'If you see something, say something.' The same should go for protecting our elections against foreign interference.

If you look at the terrorist attacks around the world, they're in places where there is no security - a club or a movie theater or wherever.

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 have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack.

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

The fact that we haven't faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is a very significant achievement, and one that's easy to forget - it's the dog that doesn't bark.

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities.

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.

National security is not just things that go boom. It is not just terrorists and foreign adversaries.

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.

Saying we should scrap drones shows an irresponsible and nonsensical ignorance of the way we protect our country. It lets down our servicemen and servicewomen fighting terrorists who want to harm us.

Who did I fight? I fought terrorists. Who did I protect? I protected the whole of Russia so that people in Moscow or St. Petersburg... could live in peace.

The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.

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.

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.

In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.

Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.

Certainly, its important to protect the water system and that covers, certainly, everything from vandals to terrorists.

The department was set up primarily to protect us from another terrorist attack from Islamic terrorists, and yet they talk about everything but that.