Quotes About Deterrence

One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.

The goal is to deter war, and this can only be done with a strong, modern, and ready military that has overmatch in all domains.

You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.

If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.

Wars did not cease in the twentieth century, notwithstanding the growth of international trade: it was not GATT but MAD, mutually assured destruction, which prevented large-scale wars after 1945.

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Crimes happen, but some are preventable.

As in health, so in crime - prevention is better than cure.

Nato has always acted according to a simple principle: it is not worth attacking somebody who is strong.

Crime prevention has to become a first priority.

Prison works.

Rewarding law breakers produces more law breakers.

You can distill deterrence down to two factors: capability and will.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

building a network—connecting people or institutions in specific ways for specific purposes—is a far better starting point than a strategy of deterrence, cooperation, or coordination with another government.

We bring the fight to the enemy so that they don't bring it to us.

I want to see overwhelming force repel anybody who is trying to get into the White House.

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.

The Blue and White government, led by me, will assemble the strongest security cabinet against terrorism and restore deterrence.

Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.