Chiefs Quote by Don Nickles

The president of the United States is the commander in chief, and the people who work with him at the National Security Council are…

— Chuck Hagel

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective…

— John Adams

Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the…

— Angus King

The chief duty of our federal government is the safety and security of the American people.

— Martha McSally

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position…

— Don Nickles

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

— Thomas Jefferson

A national government has to have national priorities.

— Amber Rudd

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

— Gijs de Vries

The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason…

— Grover Norquist

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

— Timothy Noah

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

— James Q. Wilson

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

— Harry S. Truman