National Security Quotes

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security.

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

...the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

Air Force interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved.

There seems to be some coverage these days that somehow terrorism is not a big problem. Or somehow, national security is all taken care of, and that's just not true.

The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

Michael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national security and defense.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty.

I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe.

I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.

There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know.

My major focus is national security because that's really what the president runs.

If we topple [Bashar] Assad, the result will be ISIS will take over Syria, and it will worsen U.S. national security interests.

To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?"

We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

I think 9/11 guaranteed that national security is going to be in the forefront of every election.

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

General [Michael] Flynn has been in touch with diplomatic leaders, security leaders in some 30 countries. That's exactly what the incoming national security advisor should do.

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.

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

Israel has its own right as a nation to defend its national security.

Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've seen the results.

A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security.

As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States.