National Security Quotes

President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.

it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.

Beyond violating our laws, visa overstays, pose - and they really are a big problem, pose a substantial threat to national security.

Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, who has worst voting record in Senate, just hit me on national security - but I said don't go into Iraq.

Hillary Clinton has jeopardized. Totally jeopardized national security by putting her e-mails on a private server, all to hide her corrupt dealings.

It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.

Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.

I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

I think General [Mike] Flynn is probably the top contender for that job [of national security adviser].

Issues are won based upon whether or not you can keep this economy strong; elections are won based upon economic issues and national security issues.

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

I just don't think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security.

I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.

That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple agencies, teeing up decisions that make sense for the president.

If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.

There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.

My time in the Army gave me an understanding for what it takes to provide for our national security and what it means to our service members and their families.

You don't have Republicans and Democrats behind closed doors. We have people passionate about national security behind closed doors. And I think that's the way that it should be.

If enough citizens believe their national security’s in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need.

Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims.

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.

We need a new approach to national security - a bold, progressive internationalism that stands in stark contrast to the too often belligerent and myopic unilateralism of the Bush Administration.

Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.

Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.

In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.

Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

In the United States national security interests to have a working relationship with Russia.

The extraordinary thing that we saw here is the incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, basically having a text messages back and forth with the Russian ambassador to the United States.

Obviously I have concerns, right, about national security in terms of Russia, and China, and North Korea, and obviously, the problems we have in the Middle East.

Adam Schiff, who is of course the ranking member on the House Select Committee said earlier today I'd be worried about an impulsive president with an impulsive national security adviser.

National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they're - if they're competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.

National security adviser is not a position that requires confirmation. This is a pick that like [Donald Trump] Chief of Staff, he gets to choose on his own and have installed.

[Michael Flynn is] controversial among many people in the national security establishment, many people in the Republican mainstream. The thing about this appointment that, again, goes to me is most.

Michael Flynn was one of Trump's top national security advisors throughout the campaign.

National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They're not there to be partisans, they're not there to be ideologues.

I'm just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.

Mitt Romney understands the importance of Alaska as a leader in our country's energy production and I look forward to working with him on such an important economic and national security matter.

No one should be surprised that in the balance between national security and civil liberties, President [Donald] Trump, like candidate Trump wants to be more aggressive.