Richard Clarke

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What’s more, you deserve to be hacked.

Don't put a brigade back, don't put a division back, use special forces, use predators, use airstrikes and arm the people out there.

The problem today is we don't have anybody at the front to call in airstrikes, and so our planes very often return to base with the bomb still on them.

I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we're going to do and what the limits are.

There are always going to be politicians who take positions that are not fact-based but are based more on emotion and political positioning, there are always going to be politicians who are going to position themselves as more opposed to terrorism than anybody else. But their positions are not analytically derived or fact-based.