Quotes About Vigilance

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

You know that line from The Art of War, 'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer'? Well, only if your enemies aren't holding a knife, ready to plunge it in your back.

PAWS OFF, BUCKO," I barked, slapping the Gasman's hands away from my slice of pie.

Excerpt from Alert copyright © James Patterson, 2015

snapping me back to reality.

He removes one hand from the binoculars, checks the lumpy shape under his blanket, resting on his lap. It's his backup weapon from when he was on the job, a .38 Smith & Wesson Police Special. Ronald nods

responding patrols.

Be careful. That light at the end of the tunnel could be an oncoming train." —Isaiah

collected his weapon, and put on his jacket. Then he jogged

Just keeping watch, that's all. If more people kept watch, this would be a safer country.

He shook his head. "Just — beware of Mr. Chu. He makes Itex look like Sesame Street.

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.

When I'm wearing my uniform I'm still locked into the game.

We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

Parents, you need to watch who you let loose your girls around. If you're so desperate that you want your kids to be stars, and you're going to unleash your daughters to the world, you better watch what you get.

We as women look around for things that we need to pay attention too just in case.

Maybe curiosity did kill your cat. But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the neighbor's rottweiler just the same.

WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.

We have to stay focused on every possession.

Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.