Malcolm Nance Quotes

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.

When it comes to terrorism, the only path to safety is the path to action.

When these attacks occur, as they likely will, we will wonder what more we could have done to stop them.

We could have prevented the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon if we had 20,000 troops shoulder to shoulder.

Many threats to the homeland begin overseas, and that's where we need to be.

Just take terrorism, for example. We have a team of more than 200 people working on counterterrorism. I mean, that's pretty intense. That's not like what people think about what Facebook is.

The terrorists that attacked us in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. And I bet you we wish we would have had access to five years of his records so we could see who he was working with...

I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

The campaign against terrorism is going to be global and it's going to be long and there's reason to expect there will be difficulties along the way.

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

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

With terrorism becoming the increasing tactic of choice, the military component would become a smaller component of our national security system.

The safety and security of the nation depends more so than ever before on intelligence.

… the war on terrorism will serve as the justification for restraints on civil liberties.

If you don’t know who they are, where they are, and what they’re planning, you can’t get them before they get you.

I don’t have a problem going after people who want to attack this country

We protect the American people from a staggering range of threats. But make no mistake, securing the homeland against terrorism remains our top priority.

As has been the case throughout the history of terrorism, government anxiety centres on what to do about those against whom there may be intelligence but no usable evidence.

The bottom line is we are pursuing every single possible action to keep our country safe from terrorism.

Who did I fight? I fought terrorists. Who did I protect? I protected the whole of Russia so that people in Moscow or St. Petersburg... could live in peace.