Domestic Threats Quotes

The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes; they always dwell within their borders. And from these internal enemies civilization is always in need of being saved.

I wish for an America no less alert in guarding against dangers from within than it is watchful against enemies from without.

We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.

We need to be diligent in our neighborhoods, in America to keep an eye out for wherever there might be some kind of a terrorist cell that is festering that could potentially blow up.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Inter Services Intelligence-aided sleeper modules within the country are more dangerous than a nuclear bomb.

The fact of the matter is that the United States faces real threats from criminals, terrorists, spies, and malicious cyber actors.

Where an enterprise is meditated by private individuals against a foreign nation in amity with the United States, powers of prevention to a certain extent are given by the laws. Would they not be as reasonable and useful where the enterprise preparing is against the United States?

There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.

Today, the culture wars and the constant skirmishes over the size and scope of the welfare state have convinced conservatives that the country’s direst enemies are not “subversive” foreigners, but homegrown liberals.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Today, governments have more to fear from within than without

I took an oath of office to protect Arizona from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

9/11 was a gamechanger in so many terrible ways, not just for the United States and for our own national security apparatus but for the whole world. And those attacks blew apart any notion of separation between foreign and domestic threats, any notion that such attacks only happen to other people in other countries.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.

We must build toward the future so that we are prepared to deal with the threats we will face at home and abroad and understand how those threats may be connected.

All our key institutions were created in response to either World War II or the cold war, and they were built around predictions of eminent danger from the exterior. Whereas the biggest danger we face now is internal—from the collapse of social standards and social order in our cities.