22 Quotes by Brian Jenkins

If we're going to fly them, put passengers in them, luggage, freight, parcels, then we're going to make hundreds of compromises with security. It's only a question of how many compromises.

If this happened before 9/11, I'm not certain they would have brought it into a courtroom. They might have let it unfold a bit.

Get the plane on the ground. Let the authorities deal with the hijackers. As in a mugging, the thing you don't want to do is grab the pistol out of the mugger's hand. Give the mugger your wallet. In a hijacking the proper thing to do is sit tight and not challenge the hijackers.

What we've learned from the British experience is that if people are admonished to notify authorities of suspicious activity or abandoned parcels, if you then readily have communications systems for them to do that -- telephones that are marked -- and you provide rapid response when reports are made, then in effect you have closed the loop.

He said he was driving on U.S. 250 and said someone ran in front of him.

I was looking for a space heater today, which I found, but a lot of the other stuff I bought isn't stuff that I really need.

It is a great source of concern when any of these procedures are not being followed. One is always going to find a violation here or there, but an indication that ignoring the rules is widespread practice is shocking and deplorable.

I think that is the lesson of the Israeli efforts over the years.

When you're dealing with a disparate host of terrorist foes over time, as the Israelis have confronted, then it has less effect.