Jack Keane Quotes

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

Terrorism is resorted to for practical reasons because there is no other tool available. And those who use terrorism, and then subsequently become the targets of terrorism, understand its power and how difficult it is to counter it. Not just militarily. But especially in terms of international perception.

There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?

I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war.

It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.

I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago.

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface-to-air missiles to bring down a commercial airline, that is a form of terrorism.

Since Homeland Security got up to speed in the spring of 2002, it as warned of al Qaeda using or targeting amusement parks, apartment building, banks, beer coolers, boats, cargo planes, cell phone, churches, crop dusters, farmer's almanacs, hijacked oil trucks, inner-city train, malls, nightclubs, reservoirs, scuba divers, sports stadiums, and subways. Add limousines to the list and helicopters.

People are becoming more accustomed to terrorism.

If we announced threats [to airlines and flights] as we received them, we would be catering to the terrorists' goals.

Americans ask me if I think it is dangerous to visit Israel. They are surprised that I tell them that it is. The Israelis are very bad drivers. Six hundred people die a year from automobile accidents. Since the intifada began, in over 3 years, 300 people have been killed by terrorists. Now is anyone afraid to visit Israel because of fear of auto accidents. No. This is an example of the irrational aspect of terrorism.

The challenge of terrorism is that they strike at vulnerability.

UNRWA has a very poor idea of whether its vehicles are used in terrorist attacks. We have seen tapes of vehicles, clearly marked on their roof as UNRWA vehicles with RPG weapons being loaded to carry out attacks

To the American people … nine years after 9/11, nine years of spending, and nine years of beefing up security you are still unsafe even in the holiest and most sacred of days to you, Christmas Day….

How many terrorist attacks has TSA thwarted? We're never going to know the true answer to that question.

Terrorists have no religion, belief, or race. Having been a target of a number of terrorist attacks myself, I personally empathize with the victims of terrorism and appreciate their need for protection.

Terrorists don't heed 'gun-free' signs.

The point is the country has got serious problems dealing with terrorism both domestic and international.

At any time, somebody can blow themselves up and take Americans with them. They can blow up an airplane; they can crash an airplane. That's something we have to worry about every day - we spend 40 billion dollars yearly on homeland security. That has nothing to do with Crusades or any of that other nonsense.

Did you hear about this genius that got on a plane and set fire to his feet? Turns out he had bombs in his shoes and the problem all started when the flight attendants asked him nicely to extinguish his feet. He was wearing exploding sneakers. The new Nike Air-Jihads!