National security Quotes · Page 11

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.

— Liam Fox

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

— Doug Ose

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

— Bob Schieffer

There is no doubt that the CCP is our greatest geopolitical and national security threat, and everything they do is as our…

— Katie Britt

As president, I'm focusing on economy, energy, national security, and the limited set of things the federal government is actually supposed to…

— Doug Burgum

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

— John Heilemann

Food security is a global problem, with real and immediate effects on national security.

— Will Hurd

Foreign travelers overstaying their visas to remain in the U.S. illegally represents one of the gravest national security threats to the homeland.

— Mark Meadows

It should never be the goal of U.S. foreign policy towards any country to have a - quote, unquote - "good relation."…

— Michael McFaul

“President Bush even authorized the National Security Agency to monitor— without preclearance from a judge—phone calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens. In”

— Todd Donovan

In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to…

— Louis J. Freeh

I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and…

— Patrick J. Kennedy

Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the…

— Bob Ainsworth

The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American…

— Ellen Tauscher

[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the…

— Glenn Greenwald

I am encouraged by the president-elect's [Donald Trump] insistence that NATO is a commitment that does not change. And his full commitment…

— Barack Obama

Despite global economic concerns, other nations are continuing to push forward and invest in their space capabilities. A U.S. withdrawal from the…

— Nick Lampson

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states…

— Susan Rice

One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can't disagree without challenging each…

— Barack Obama

Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Democrats are channeling their frustration with America's imminent military victory in Afghanistan into hysterical opposition to reasonable national security measures at home.…

— Ann Coulter

“Barack Obama, in a 2007 stump speech for his nascent presidential campaign, had pledged, ‘No more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No…

— Luke Harding

“Some writings spotted U.S. history said that the CIA agents who were watching the Communists, in the period after the Second World…

— Mohamed Addakhakhny

So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Lee H. Hamilton

I think it's safe to say that mass shootings pose a gigantic threat to national security.

— Ana Kasparian

Both the national security establishment and the high-tech community are interested in working overtime to contain China.

— John Mearsheimer

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

— Theresa May

Without independent, secure, and safe minerals, there is no manufacturing independence. Worse, there is no national security.

— John E. James

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team…

— Mitch McConnell

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national…

— Peter Kuznick

I think to leave Europe would be a threat on the one hand to our economic security and on the other our…

— Nicholas Soames

Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

— Jack Keane

The purpose of the military is to close with and destroy the enemy on behalf of our national security priorities.

— Todd Wilcox

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

— Newt Gingrich

The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is…

— Ted Cruz

We need to secure our southern border. Clearly, the southern border is now a nexus between immigration and national security. It's a…

— Ryan Zinke

I do want to be very clear: I see our nuclear deterrent as absolutely core insurance for our national security.

— Andrea Leadsom

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

— Leon Panetta

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

— Randy Neugebauer