Decided Quote by Barack Obama

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus…

— Paul Bremer

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security…

— John Poindexter

Our counterterrorism tools do not exist in a vacuum. They are stronger and more sustainable when the American people understand and support them. They…

— John O. Brennan

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is…

— John O. Brennan

We have to defeat ISIS. That is my highest counterterrorism goal.

— Hillary Clinton

I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.

— Rahm Emanuel

Every threat needs to be taken as: 'This is the one; this is the real threat.' That's how we focus on things in counterterrorism.…

— Abigail Spanberger

I fight terrorism as if there was no peace process, and I negotiate the peace process as if there was no terrorism.

— Juan Manuel Santos

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…

— Cofer Black

We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot…

— John O. Brennan

What began as a counterterrorism mission - to bring to justice the architects of 9/11 and deny terrorists a base of operations in Afghanistan…

— Jake Auchincloss

The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.

— Richard Engel