National Security Quotes - Page 11

• Climate change is a real consequence of human activity and we have a moral obligation to address this challenge. That means reducing carbon pollution and accelerating our transition to clean energy, not only to protect our planet, but also to ensure our national security.

  Jason Kander

  Real, Mean, Challenges

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  George Stephanopoulos

  Jobs, Thinking, Mike

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was no vulgarity in it. There was no bombast. There wasn't any of the usual Trump braggadocio. It was a teleprompter speech, but it was serious, studious, and it represented a solid understanding of issues and of the status quo.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Military, Philadelphia, Issues

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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.

  Mitt Romney

  Eye, Russia, Iran

  Source: genius.com

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• The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

  Kenny Marchant

  Oil, Issues, Energy

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• The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent or default - have followed different paths since 1989. We stayed mostly the same as they became hypopowers that, to take a small example, would and could do nothing should a madman in Korea wish to kill millions.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Commitment, Korea, Years

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• Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda members or affiliated terrorists during a time of war. The American people expect their leaders to stay a step ahead of the enemy, and the National Security Agency authorization is a critical tool in the War on Terror that saves lives and protects civil liberties at the same time.

  Scott McClellan

  War, Communication, Agency

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• The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.

  Richard V. Allen

  Successful, Bridges, Administration

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• Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.

  Peter Welch

  Home, Oil, America

  "Creating Jobs by Investing in Energy Efficiency" by Rep. Peter Welch, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2010.

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• You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.

  Todd Rokita

  War, Fighting, America

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• Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

  Ed Royce

  Technology, Issues, Energy

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• Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

  William O. Douglas

  Brother, Powerful, World Government

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. U.S. national security, as preached by U.S. leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people.

  Philip Agee

  America, Class, People

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• To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.

  Michael Parenti

  Class, Numbers, People

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.174, City Lights Books

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• Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

  Ellen Tauscher

  War, Order, Atmosphere

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• Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on a tightly sealed box. Written with courage and passion, this is a book whose often counterintuitive clarity shakes entombed assumptions like an earthquake. Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.

  Adam Garfinkle

  Book, Passion, Tired

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• It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security.

  Bryan Fischer

  Military, Simple, Practice

  "Conservative Group: Time To Purge Muslims From Military" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

  William Blum

  Compassion, People, Empathy

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• Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage .... One of the most remarkable features of this damage has been the readiness of governments to harm the very people that they claimed they were protecting by building these weapons for national security reasons. In general, this harm was inflicted on people in disregard of democratic norms. Secrecy, fabrication of data, cover-ups in the face of attempted public inquiry, and even human experiments without informed consent have all occurred in nuclear weapons production and testing programs.

  Arjun Makhijani

  Government, Data, People

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• Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

  Kofi Annan

  Wall, Rights, World

  "Kofi Annan and U.N. Accept 2001 Nobel Peace Prize", www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2001.

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• 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.

  Herbert York

  Science, Achievement, Sound

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Country, Essentials, Nuclear

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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• Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.

  Mark Hatfield

  People, Vulnerable, Educated

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• As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.

  Jane Harman

  Believe, Nsa, House

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• How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

  Jim Fowler

  Welfare Programs, Earth, Social

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