Threat Neutralization Quotes

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

I take away his weapon. Both of them.

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

Yes, we all know that there's a good chance the missiles won't work properly when the government people finally come to get them, but over the years we've stopped worrying about that. Deep down, most of us feel it's probably better this way. After all, if there are families in faraway countries with their own backyard missiles, armed and pointed back at us, we would hope that they too have found a much better use for them.

Joseph Kony is hiding somewhere in the Central African Republic. He is no longer a threat. We have already punished him. We provide our own safety.

What our enemies have begun, we will finish.

America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.

He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.