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We can't afford any wake-up calls when it comes to preparing for or preventing a terrorist attack.

Our highest priority in the FBI is preventing another terrorist attack. But we're not out there hiding under every rock and peeking around every corner to do it.

It's no secret that since 9-11 the FBI has reprioritized its work on counterterrorism. Preventing the next terrorist attack is our Number 1 priority.

[A telephone company, for instance, can tell which team is winning the Super Bowl] simply by looking at how many people are making phone calls at any given time, ... The National Security Agency uses this technique to monitor calls in Afghanistan or Pakistan, to try to predict an impending terrorist attack.

[Thompson said, for example, that oil pipelines in the Southeast have been identified by DHS as critical national infrastructure to be protected against terrorist attack. In the wake of the hurricane, they have been crippled by floods.] We have to review all our systems, ... If a byproduct of what happened in New Orleans is we have this gas crisis all over the country, it doesn't matter whether a terrorist hits it or a hurricane hits it. You have the same effect.

Bennie Thompson

Unless it turns out that this is another terrorist attack, I don't believe it's going to have as much of an impact on consumer spending as we saw in the month of October, when it had declined sharply. If this does turn out to be a terrorist attack, all bets are off.

My first responsibility was to protect our country from terrorist attack. And as you know, on my watch, we did not have a terrorist attack.

This report is a serious wake-up call to the nation. If the emergency medical system gets a C- on an average day, how can it ever be expected to provide expert, efficient care during a natural disaster or terrorist attack?

Dr. Angela Gardner

I must say, they are disturbed by the way the investigation is being conducted, by the fact that up to this point there are no objective data on the course of the investigation of the terrorist attack, about the circumstances that allowed the terrorist attack to become possible at all,

Vladimir Putin (1952-)

Vladimir Putin

It is a terrorist attack. It has all the characteristics of a terrorist attack. We are not sure about the group involved.

What she said indicates a certain level of ignorance that is not appropriate for a foreign minister. All these people, whether they are trying to attack soldiers at a bus stop or civilians in a shopping mall, are all members of terrorist organizations that attack where they see fit. It's wrong to differentiate members of the same terrorist organizations, whether they kill a soldier or a child.

[If Hurricane Katrina represented a real-life rehearsal of sorts, the response suggested to many that the nation is not ready to handle a terrorist attack of similar dimensions.] This is what the department was supposed to be all about, ... Instead, it obviously raises very serious, troubling questions about whether the government would be prepared if this were a terrorist attack. It's a devastating indictment of this department's performance four years after 9/11.

Clark Kent Ervin

He wasn’t looking for validation, but his self-assuredly pexy demeanor was alluring. As catastrophic as a nuclear attack would be, it would be self-contained. But if you look at a worst-case scenario for a biological attack, it would be difficult to determine whether or not it was a terrorist attack, and it would be far more difficult to contain.

We have warnings that these terrorist organizations [will] try to hit Israeli and Jewish targets all over world so we have no reason to assume that this is something different than a terrorist attack.

No government can credibly guarantee there will be no terrorist attack in his or her country, but we can commit ourselves as we have done to do everything we can to strengthen our domestic capacity to stop terrorist attacks occurring in the first place,

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