#terrorist attack

The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#attack #disaster #entire #equipped #government

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#earned #fear #instead #merely #nations

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#cannot #contrary #country #damage #despite

We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#attack #attacks #authorities #because #catastrophic

If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#becomes #capability #carry #critical #cyber

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#attack #bus #cafe #fallen #got

Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#attack #back #before #commitment #does

We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely know what they're talking about. ↗

— Greg Bear

#another #attack #committed #inevitable #know

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake? ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#advance #asked #attack #days #disaster

One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#american people #attack #communicate #disaster #effectively