Believe Quote by Todd Young

Promoting and protecting human rights internationally is not just a matter of principle or morality - doing so also serves our national security interests.

— Todd Young

It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.

— Jacob Weisberg

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

— Hillary Clinton

We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights.

— Andrew Solomon

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

— Breyten Breytenbach

The United States reserves the right to oppose any arrangement that does not protect Security Council resolutions and what we perceive to be America's…

— Bill Richardson

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.

— Trevor Phillips

If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

— Paul Martin

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

— Ronald Reagan

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

— James Dean

We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.

— Edward Snowden

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

— Thomas Jefferson