Enes Kanter Quotes

I am a common man. Why do I need security?

I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards.

I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

The threat is there, and we get paid to tell Americans it is there.

Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.

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.

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I'm already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be.

I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!

I do think we need more cameras. We have to stay ahead of the terrorists, and I do know in New York, the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, which is based on cameras, the outstanding work that results from that.

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

Every threat must be taken seriously.

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

Stopping people you don’t trust is an essential ingredient. It is part of owning and governing the territory you’re patrolling

Do every single thing you can to protect yourself, your family, and your country.

It's much harder to detect a lone wolf than it is somebody who's associated with a larger organization who's having planning meetings and making phone calls to people in the organization. And so that is really how the jihad has really developed in the United States.

The threats against me are not only in Holland, but outside the country as well. We are talking about very serious threats on the part of different terror groups, and when you are aware of the extent of the threats, it's only human to think that something will indeed happen.

One of the things that's important to me as a Londoner is making sure my family, people I care about, are safe.

Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.