More - Richard Clarke Quotes

It has been an enormous privilege to serve you these last 24 months, ... I thank you again for the opportunity to serve you have provided me and wish you good fortune as you lead our country through the continuing threats.

Richard Clarke

 Opportunity

They were very large and did extensive damage. This one appears to have been very large and shaped so that the blast went into the ship.

Richard Clarke

 

You should want the highest form of technology and security for your privacy information, and frankly, we don't have that today.

Richard Clarke

 Information

We're competing in an Australian league and we have to cross the Tasman every second game, it's as simple as that.

Richard Clarke

 

Now then. I'm tense. Tight. Any tips from readers on how to calm the nerves during the final session?

Richard Clarke

 Calm

This attack, which was the largest in terms of the bomb size to date, was meant to embarrass the United States the day before the president arrives in Pakistan.

Richard Clarke

 

They rehearse that, they train it, they do dry runs.

Richard Clarke

 

We have quietly gone after that organization, and we're picking it apart limb by limb, ... We are not done yet, but we will be.

Richard Clarke

 

This may have been the straw that breaks the camel's back with regard to attacks on fellow members of Islam.

Richard Clarke

 

Whether he is alive or dead almost doesn't matter because he has become a symbolic figure, rather than an operational figure.

Richard Clarke