Stephen Flynn Quotes

The role the U.S. government is currently playing in port security does not change with the purchase by Dubai Ports World.

- Stephen Flynn

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The degree to which the Bush administration is willing to invest in conventional national security spending relative to basic domestic security measures is considerable. - Stephen Flynn

We live on the edge as a modern society, and terrorists can take advantage of that... What Katrina has told us, Mother Nature has told us: 'You live on the edge, and if you don't make prudent investments, lots of lives and property can be unnecessarily lost.' - Stephen Flynn

Rumsfeld wants that firewall between Northern Command and DHS because he's legitimately afraid that otherwise, Congress will rob the Defense budget to pay for homeland-security initiatives. The problem with that approach is that it provides no incentives for senior NorthCom leaders to build relationships with mayors and governors around the country, closely studying what capabilities they have and exactly what kind of help they would need in a disaster. - Stephen Flynn