Gijs de Vries Quotes

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

Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

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

We could have prevented the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon if we had 20,000 troops shoulder to shoulder.

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

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.

Since Homeland Security got up to speed in the spring of 2002, it as warned of al Qaeda using or targeting amusement parks, apartment building, banks, beer coolers, boats, cargo planes, cell phone, churches, crop dusters, farmer's almanacs, hijacked oil trucks, inner-city train, malls, nightclubs, reservoirs, scuba divers, sports stadiums, and subways. Add limousines to the list and helicopters.

People are becoming more accustomed to terrorism.

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

I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].

Security will produce danger.

Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

P of what al Qaeda tries to do, and terrorists, is disrupt. Americans should live their lives just as they have every day, but just be aware.

If I am not safe in Alton, I shall not be safe anywhere.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.

Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

I think I need security.

We live in an unsafe world.

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.