Thomas Carper Quotes

I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.

The nature of our enemy is changing. It used to be nation states. Now it is individuals.

For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.

Foreign policy is inseparable from domestic policy now. Is terrorism foreign policy or domestic policy? It's both. It's the same with crime, with the economy, climate change.

We are not safe. We are safer than we were, but we are not as safe as we could be.

In the age of terror, there is less room for error.

Your biggest threat is bin Laden!

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

What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.

We live in very, very, very dangerous times.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

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

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

We live in an unsafe world.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

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 a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

People need islands of stability during periods of rapid change.

Our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.