In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

Superman don’t need no seat belt.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks – that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.