Security Quotes

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.

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

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

Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.

Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.

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.

Financial security puts me at ease and makes me reel good about my future

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.

Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.

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.

The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat.

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere.

I still hope that the American system of checks and balances will ultimately prevent this man, Donald Trump, with his erratic political style, from jeopardizing our European security architecture.

If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.

Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles!

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse and anybody could die at any time.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.

We are trying to get a border wall to protect millions of low income Americans against folks who aren't supposed to be here. So, it's a national security.

Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.

President Trump's made it clear that his administration is going to put the safety and security of the American people first.

If I'm vice president of the United States and Donald Trump is president, we're going to put the safety and security of the American people first.

This is Shaun Mason activating security protocol Campbell. The bridge is out, the trees are coming, and I’m pretty sure my hand is evil. Now gimme some sugar, baby.

The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is civil liberties, political activity, and so on and so forth.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.

Iran's nuclearization is the greatest single national security threat America faces.

The president (George W. Bush) says let's have private accounts, and take the surplus money that's being gathered now in Social Security and put it into private accounts. That works.

I'm not in favor of privatizing Social Security or making cuts.

No one is talking about restructuring Social Security or Medicare for current retirees or for those that are near retirement. For those under 55, the answer is let's talk about it.

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.

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.