Paul Manafort Quotes

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

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

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

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

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

The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

One of the most significant threats to our national security was and is home-grown Islamist terrorism.

Can any nation claim, guarantee, that there will be no terror strike?

The numbers of terrorists that we have caught coming - we actually don't catch them coming across the border. We usually catch them in some other context.

We don't want terrorists in Wyoming or anywhere else in this country. And we have got to make sure the federal government is doing its job by not allowing these folks into our states.

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

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

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

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

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

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

Al-Qa’ida members -- including some who are US citizens --have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks.

How can we think we are protected if terrorists can move around freely, if weapons can circulate freely?

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.