Cofer Black Quotes

#1. Cyber will be part of any future conflict
whether it's a nation state or terrorism,

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#2. Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

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#3. The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

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#4. In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#5. Humans appeared on a watery rock spinning around a ball of flames suspended in the middle of an endless ocean of nothing, and yet you still don't believe in a miracle like love?

Seth King

#6. Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth.

Elizabeth I

#7. If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

Jamie Dimon

#8. The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

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#9. Futility is in the eye of the beholder.

Dean Koontz

#10. There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who can get so close to the vividness of other peoples interior selves.

Linda Grant

#11. A thousand years of dominion went ringing across the Thames like a trumpet blast. Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Norman ancestry combined in a chord that had deafened and conquered nations. It expected the moon to bow the knee. If not, so much the worse for the moon.

Ariana Franklin

#12. We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

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#13. As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

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#14. Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

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#15. We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

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#16. were to ask whether the writers recommend visiting Mexico City, the response would be both firm and passionate: "Yes, of course." Because this is the best city on the planet, in spite of itself.

Paco Ignacio Taibo II

#17. I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

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#18. God sendeth cold after clothes.

William Camden

#19. Turn around.
Only two words, but they deliver such a sensual threat.
I do as you ask without question. You are right behind me, breathing hard into the small of my neck, where I like to be kissed.

Felicity Brandon

#20. No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

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#21. We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

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#22. Artists are strange people. They make the world a beautiful place, and make others feel good, but they are a bunch of lonely people. Artists are people with unfulfilled, unrealistic dreams, lonely, and always searching for perfection.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#23. The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.

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#24. The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

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