Fred Thompson Quotes

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

The scope of our cybersecurity problem is enormous. Our government, our businesses, our trade secrets and our citizens' most sensitive information are all facing constant cyberattacks and reviews by the enemy.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

I do agree that when it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.

I think we need to get to the bottom of it. And I think there should be an investigation [of hackers attacks] because in order to defend ourselves against other adversarial countries, we have to protect our information.

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

To prevent a crippling attack on our nation's critical networks, U.S. companies and the federal government must work together to combat those who wish to do us harm.

We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.

Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

At the dawn of the nuclear age, national security officials could not win top jobs without knowing the language of nukes. In contrast, today the vast majority of these officials are cyber-illiterate [when the current major threat was cyber-attacks].

The United States cannot wait for the cyber equivalent of the collapse of the World Trade Center.

The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.

I think we could very easily suffer a seriously catastrophic cyber event.

The United States lost a bit of the moral high ground when it comes to warning the world of the danger of cyberattacks.

The problem with cyber weapons for a country like ours is the ability to control them.

It seems Russians hacked into emails from both the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee and then chose to release only the DNC emails. These attacks destabilize and undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral process, and they must be addressed in a serious and proportional way - just as we would for a non-cyberattack.

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

My view is that the cyber threat is bigger than any one government agency - or even the government itself. But the FBI brings a rare combination of scope and scale, experience, and tools to the mix. We investigate criminal activity like intrusions and cyber attacks, but we also investigate national security threats like foreign influence.

We live in a world where all wars will begin as cyber wars... It's the combination of hacking and massive, well-coordinated disinformation campaigns.

In cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly difficult to uphold security for one's own country by sacrificing that of others.

Out of any country on the planet, I can't think of a country that has been more focused than Iran from the high levels of government on cyber, and that includes the United States.

When it comes to the cyberwarfare piece, we're going to have to deal with it.

We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.