Quotes About Vigilance

When people talk to you in such glowing terms, that is the time to be very, very alert because the worst of the mistakes are made in the best of the times.

One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true.

In Chicago, you know you got beef with everybody. In Atlanta, you're chilling, but you don't get too comfortable. Like, if I go to the store, it's not like anybody's gonna come out shooting at me.

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

If you ask me what I think about going to work every day, it's 9/11 and preventing another 9/11. There were too many people I knew.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

I've never seen a tornado and I've lived in Oklahoma City basically my whole life. It's not like we're infested with them on a continual basis. But you learn to live with the warnings. And you learn what to do if one is coming your way. And then you cross your fingers and make the best judgments you can.

Paranoia might leave you loveless and alone, Raoul once said, but it'll keep you alive. Paranoia is your best friend.

When you look at the dark side, careful you must be ... for the dark side looks back.

Locked, cocked, and ready to rock, sir!

Hunter and his father leaped into Huntsman Defense Stance—ax in one hand, the other hand held out, knees slightly bent, hair tossed by the breeze. They stood back-to-back, turning, listening to determine direction.

Okay. Take a peek, but I swear if you try anything funny, I'll beat your head in with my flashlight.

Lack of vigilance will get you killed. A McCloud creed that he seemed to have internalized.

Caputi defines serial sex murder as 'gynocide, sexually political murder, an extreme form of terrorism in the service of the patriarchal state'. The result of this and other acts of sexual terrorism is that 'women are supposed to accept it as a "normal" , unavoidable consequence of modern life that we must conduct our lives in constant vigilance and fear, restricting our movements, staying inside at night'.

Don't let your loophole become your noose.

It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information.

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.

You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.