National Quotes

The greatest threat that the world faces, the greatest national security threat is a nuclear Iran.

Iran is the greatest national security threat America faces. Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this.

It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security.

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.

Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its citizens.

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.

I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

From National Lampoon, you go directly to Saturday Night Live, because it's a lot of the same people.

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public.

I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.

It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

Everyone thinks it would be great to work for National Geographic. So did I.

General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.

It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.

Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.

National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

It is always disappointing when a player is not prepared to stick it out and fight for his place in a national team.

Open borders and the never-ending parade of illegal immigrants does nothing to build the national economy or the American culture.

My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that.

Increasingly, it's people not interested in National Geographic.

I don't listen to the national anthem ironically. It's a beautiful song. I love it!

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.

We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.

Why is it when I’m the one shot, I’m a baby, but when it’s you, it’s a matter of life and death and national security? (Joe) Because I’m cuter in a short skirt. (Tee)

What’s in that backpack, by the way? You’re always guarding it like it holds national security secrets or something. (Tory) Dirty underwear. (Acheron)

Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly.

We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran.

I would urge that we all use a little bit of caution in dealing with an issue that is so vital to our national security.

The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander in chief.

You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.

Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it down and to prepare for and ameliorate its impact.

I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.

In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

The NSA may, or may not have rejected the invisible secret operative application form I never even bothered to have sent over to them. I'll never know...

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.