Threat Evaluation Quotes

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

You aren't exactly the best judge of what is or isn't dangerous.

Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this president just weeks before an election.

In cases of defense, it is best to weigh the enemy more than he seems.

You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.

The brave are parsimonious of threats.

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.

You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we're being told to be afraid of everything. The things that we're frightened of, or told to be frightened of, are not necessarily the things that we need to fear.

He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.

We are monitoring very closely threats against the pope as he comes in to the United States.

There is a danger in action. There is a danger in inaction. The people have to decide which is greater…. A 21 year old Moslem Male is a lot more likely to be a terrorist than an 85 year old Norwegian grandmother …. Scrutinize more carefully the people who are in a category that might make them more likely to be a danger.

Assessing any possible threat is one thing, but pressing into a full investigation without facts of a crime or national security threat violates standard procedure.

The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.