Quotes About Security

As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.

I had to deal with terrorist finance. And we had to, if you like, ensure that the accounts of people who were guilty of terrorist finance or using their accounts for terrorist finance were closed down. So we had to do asset freezing.

Every day, every week, you have another case of Israeli Arabs that are taking part in terrorist activity.

Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.

The Muslim Brotherhood membership includes designated terrorist organizations like Hamas.

Where there is terrorist activity - Syria or Iraq - we will temporarily suspend immigration until we can establish a vetting system in which we can identify who people are who are coming in.

The NSA is not listening to anyone's phone calls. They're not reading any Americans' e-mails. They're collecting simply the data that your phone company already has, and which you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, so they can search that data quickly in the event of a terrorist plot.

I believe we need to ensure there are no refugees placed in Arizona with connections to terrorist organizations.

I believe that when you are attacked like we were attacked in America by these terrorist groups, that we not only have to respond in kind, we've got to go farther. We've got to destroy these groups because just sure as we don't - if we didn't respond, we will be hit again and again and again, and we will live in fear.

If you think you can finish ISIS off with the PYD and YPG, you cannot, because they are terrorist groups as well.

We have to fight all terrorist groups, and not arm one to fight another.

If we have intelligence on the location of terrorist training centers, it is insane not to act.

At some point, there is going to be a terrorist diaspora out of Syria like we've never seen before.

Syria is hosting the most dangerous terrorist organizations.

Terrorist organizations such as Hamas must be shut down.

I spent over 10 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, serving overseas, serving in the Middle East. And let me tell you, if you're a terrorist and you want to come to the United States, the worst possible way to do it is as a refugee. You'll go through a year and a half to two years of vetting.

The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States.

While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

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.

If you're a terrorist, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun.

We obviously know that terrorist groups have become very reliant on social media.

ISIL is a terrorist army like we have never seen - they cannot be ignored.

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.