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Responsibility demands action, and dealing with the immediate threat must naturally be a top priority.

So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.

You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

Threat is in the eye of the beholder.

The real threat comes from terrorism.