44 Quotes by John Pike

Possibly, in a post-Sept. 11 environment, we do need to think about restricting the availability of information that would be useful to terrorists. But if we're going to do it for online satellite imagery, there are a lot of other sources of similar information that we're going to have to try to restrict as well.

If we give the Air Force enough money and enough time, the Airborne Laser will probably achieve many of its goals.

It goes against everything they have believed for more than a century.

It has been a long time since I have not been able to get a look at the cockpit as I get on a plane.

I think we're going to see a package deal.

I think the United States needs to engage with India and Pakistan to help them deploy a limited number of nuclear weapons in the most stabilizing fashion possible.

I think there will be growing interest in using biometric scanning at international access points in order to catch known people coming in on false papers. The problem is, even if all these searches disclose the identity papers of some of the perpetrators, that will not tell you necessarily what their mother named them since none of these people travel under their own names,

Risk-averse American decision-makers would have to be focused on the possibility that the Chinese will beat us back to the moon. It would be a reasonable worry from the political perspective,

It depends on how many nodes you're talking about. A minimal survivable radio network for emergency crews, the improvement of state emergency-management operation centers ? these kind of steps are feasible. But when people start talking about a nationwide survivable network, I tell them, 'Welcome to what's called the real world.' No one is going to pay for such a thing.