Sidney Blumenthal Quotes

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.

President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have become complacent about the true nature of the threat.

The challenge of terrorism is that they strike at vulnerability.

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

The counterterrorism strategy known as CONTEST aimed to reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from terrorism, so that people can go about their lives freely and with confidence.

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

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

Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.

I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

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?

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

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

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists.

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

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

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.

We are keeping New Jersey one step, several steps, ahead of terrorism.