“We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.”
Bill Maher
“They fired missiles over Japan. What is the likelihood that they currently have a missile capable of hitting the West Coast of the United States?”
Evan Bayh
“Some 300 Tomahawk Cruise missiles have been fired, and around 100 air-launch Cruise missiles have been used, ... Coalition forces have attacked about 100 separate, precise military targets.”
George Robertson
“Pakistan test-fired its first cruise missile Thursday in a blatant attempt to intimidate India. It flies beneath radar. If they attacked India with a nuclear cruise missile it could wipe out the entire United States customer service industry.”
Argus Hamilton
“It can avoid anti-missile missiles and strike the target.”
Gen. Hossein Salami
“[A renegade plane with a cruise missile also might fly into Fenway Park or some other densely populated place, said Gilbert Brown, professor and coordinator of the nuclear engineering program at the University of Massachusetts.] You can't think about the scenario without considering the probability, ... We need to make decisions based on some sense of reality.”
Gilbert Brown
“I really believe that before its over, its not going be a cruise missile or a bomber that is going to be the determining factor, ... It's going to be a scrap of information from some person, in some country that's been repressed by a dictatorial regime that's been sponsoring a terrorist organization that's going to provide the information that's going to enable us to pull this network up by its roots and end it.”
Donald Rumsfeld
