Greg Bear Quotes

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

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

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.

We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.

So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that.

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

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

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

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

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.

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

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

When it comes to terrorism, the only path to safety is the path to action.

When these attacks occur, as they likely will, we will wonder what more we could have done to stop them.

What do they want us to do? Kiss them [suspected terrorists] on both cheeks.... The report is full of crap.

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

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

Italy remains deeply engaged in the global fight against terrorism as well as on domestic programmes against radicalisation.