Quotes About Security

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

Not one of the 9/11 terrorists entered through Mexico - and yet Mexicans bore the brunt of this country's immigration response to the terror attacks.

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.

It's not law-abiding gun owners that are the problem here - it's Islamic terrorists.

When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.

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

We must stop arming terrorists.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

You do not negotiate with terrorists.

All the terrorists are basically migrants.

Our armed forces have given many sacrifices to defeat terrorists and root out their hideouts. This fight will continue until all terrorists are defeated.

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.

The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

A compromise appears out of reach on the stripping of terrorists' nationality.

We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't.

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.

The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door. The terrorists will simply hire a programmer to come up with a secure encryption scheme.

I think the terrorists are just idiots.

Terrorists will always find a way to communicate. They will always find a solution.

They only have to be right one time, the terrorists do, and we have to be wrong one time.