A plague more monstrous than anything we have experienced could spread with all the irrevocability of ink on tissue paper. Ancient scourges would quickly become modern nightmares. |
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place. |
I'm very confident that the department will be able to carry out its missions as we cross over into the new millennium. |
If, as it appears, it was an act of terrorists, then we will do everything in our power to track them down and hold them accountable. |
Politically, economically and technologically, the world is changing at an unprecedented and sometimes alarming pace. |
Technology is miniaturizing the globe, binding our destiny ever more closely to that of our allies and economic partners around the world. |
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. |
That hole in the side of the Cole was actually a hole in the chest and the heart of the American people. |
The more reliant we become upon computers and information systems, the more vulnerable we become to cyber-terrorists who will conceive unlimited ways to cripple our infrastructure, our power grids, our banking systems, our financial markets, our space based communications systems. |
The terrorists have to understand they can't force us out of areas of our interests. So we're not going to be driven away by any terrorist group. |
The threat of terrorism taking place on American soil is real, with chemical, biological, indeed, as you've indicated, even potentially nuclear weapons. We have, in fact, increased our security in this country. There is no foolproof security that we can provide. But to say that we can't protect against everything doesn't mean that we shouldn't protect against those that can cause us catastrophic harm. |
There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least... Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. |
These plans make it very clear . . . that there is no room for harassment or threats in the military. |
This memorial is more than a remembrance, it's also a reminder that women in the military's service to America is not new and should never again be allowed to go unrecognized. We don't allow women in service as a social favor; we do not train women in the name of a noble social experiment. Today, women in uniform are part of the national security of the United States, and this isn't a modern nicety, it's a military necessity. . . . Our military wouldn't be what it is today without women. |
We are trying to take it step by step because it's very, very difficult technology we are trying. |