34 Quotes by William Cohen

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

We felt it was in our best interests to move out. We'll play this out in court.

Politically, economically and technologically, the world is changing at an unprecedented and sometimes alarming pace.

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.

We can never descend to the level of those who killed us. We will (respond) with precision. We will rip them up and bring them to justice . . . The real question for us is, "Do we have the will -- the will to stay the course?

We intend to take down that terror network.

While we are not and cannot become the world's policeman, neither can we become a prisoner of world events, isolated and tucked safely away in a continental cocoon.

We are trying to take it step by step because it's very, very difficult technology we are trying.