John Kerry Quotes

We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

Today's terrorists can strike at any place, at any time, and with virtually any weapon

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

The issue that Mr. Trump is talking about and which, really, frankly, I expect the media should be talking about is protecting the American homeland from national security risks and terrorists.

I think we'll see it mostly in the United States. We're getting to the point where al Qaeda is ready to again attack us inside America. I think we're basically defenseless.

Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face.

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.

We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.

The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

There will be a significant terrorist attack in the coming weeks or months and the attack will be spectacular.

Four years after 9/11 it is scandalous that police and firefighters in large cities still cannot communicate reliably in a major crisis. It is scandalous that airline passengers are still not screened against all names on a terrorist watch list. It is scandalous that we still allocate scarce homeland security dollars on the basis of pork barrel spending, not risk.

We have not yet, as a nation, made a generation-long commitment to this terrorist threat.

The terrorists are racing and we are moving at somewhere between a walk and a crawl, depending on the day of the week.

Every national security threat that has been accepted has then been inflated.

The willingness to condone some form of interrogational coercion, including outright torture in particular extreme circumstances is directly related … to the degree that one takes seriously the threat that terrorists pose to entire cities.

The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.