Richard Curtis Quotes

So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was not for the fact that this matter is so grave and serious.

When we faced a possibility here in New York of chemical and biological attack, three days after September 11, I called in all of the experts, academic experts, Nobel Prize laureates, and doctors who had dealt with anthrax, doctors who had dealt with various forms of chemical and biological attack.

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

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

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

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.

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.

To me, we never get enough funding. In New York, we are clearly the number one terrorist target in the country.

Our team security said, even if you go to a supermarket, have someone with you. So everywhere I go - grocery shopping, practice, go to games, go to plays - I always have someone with me because you never know, a lone wolf, one of the crazy Erdogan supporters will do something.

If it were up to me, I wouldn't have security. But Hef thinks I'm naive. He feels I'm vulnerable to kidnapping.

Look, fundamentally there are two sets of questions that apply in the war against terrorism. The one set of questions deals with the, "Where is it going to happen? What's going to happen? When is it going to happen?" The other set of questions deals with, "What is it that our enemy, the terrorists, are trying to achieve?" What are they trying to induce us to do?

If you're too dangerous to fly, you're too dangerous to buy a gun.

You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering.

We have a situation where the security of America is at stake, and it's a very, very serious situation.

There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

I believe we're all aware that there are people and organizations throughout the world who are bent on destroying America, everything we stand for and inflicting harm on American citizens. It is the obligation of the president of the United States to respond to those. I believe, I must add, that this adminstration for the last seven months has neglected compelling national security threats besides this ... I hope that the president will not confine his activities to just this.

Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.

After 9/11, we had to look at the world differently. After 9/11, we had to recognize that when we saw a threat, we must take it seriously before it comes to hurt us. In the old days we'd see a threat, and we could deal with it if we felt like it or not. But 9/11 changed it all.

We will take whatever action is necessary to protect our people, including against the terror tunnels that they are trying to dig against us.

You have to almost apologize for saying, please enforce the laws. The laws, that they're [government] receiving good federal dollars to be able to ensure for public safety, which is incumbent upon them to secure on the streets in every city and state across this country. And instead government allows individuals who are a risk, who are a threat, to come back in the country, routinely, regularly without any kind of checks and balances.