National Security Quotes - Page 14

• We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Survival, Needs, Use

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• I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy.

  Allen West

  Suicide, Thinking, Tolerance

  "Rep. Allen West: U.S. Could Be Committing 'Cultural Suicide'". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

  Andrew Young

  Military, Army, Important

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• What’s in that backpack, by the way? You’re always guarding it like it holds national security secrets or something. (Tory) Dirty underwear. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dirty, Secret, Underwear

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.527, Macmillan

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• Why is it when I’m the one shot, I’m a baby, but when it’s you, it’s a matter of life and death and national security? (Joe) Because I’m cuter in a short skirt. (Tee)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Life And Death, Matter

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

  Bill Shuster

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Oil

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• Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.

  John O. Brennan

  Real, Growing, Serious

  "Obama's End Goal: World Without Nuclear Weapons". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. April 13, 2010.

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• Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

  Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  "A gag full of holes". www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2007.

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• Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to try to resolve an intractable religious divide some 1,500 years in the making.

  Ted Cruz

  Religious, Military, Years

  "Cruz jumps into Iraq discussion" by Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. June 18, 2014.

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• Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either.

  Jeff Bridges

  Children, Nice, Inspiration

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• Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Retirement, Home, Self

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2012). “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy. It won't work. We have to be the party that can stand toe to toe with George W. Bush on national security, as well as the party of compassion.

  Wesley Clark

  Running, Party, Compassion

  Wesley Clark at Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Johnson Theatre, University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. December 9, 2003.

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• I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.

  Wesley Clark

  Forgotten, Security

  Wesley Clark's speech at the 2004 Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Richmond, Virginia, February 7, 2004.

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• This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent.

  David Corn

  Law, Identity, Agents

  "A White House Smear" by David Corn, www.thenation.com. July 16, 2003.

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• Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Way, Damage

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I think an increasing number of Republicans are perplexed and actually nervous about Donald Trump and Russia, nervous in the sense that he is gratuitously giving Democrats the national security advantage, that they're standing up for the country.

  Mark Shields

  Country, Thinking, Russia

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We have national security concerns. There are lots of concerns which must be addressed by actually securing our border. And so, a physical security barrier on the border is something we`ve all - I voted for it, like I said, in 2006 or 2007.

  Paul Ryan

  Borders, Said, Concern

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets. President Obama now leaves in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won't be held accountable for their crimes.

  Paul Ryan

  Risk, Secret, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [Donald] Trump`s incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, spoke on the phone with Russia`s ambassador the same day President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and imposed new sanctions on Russia.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Phones, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There's simply no question under "The Constitution," and, frankly, under federal law, that the president of the United States has the authority, in the interest of national security, to determine who has the right to come into this country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Law, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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.

  Mark Halperin

  Balance, President, Liberty

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Doug Ose

  Issues, Safe, Affordable

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• But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Government, Long

  "Obama at War". "Frontline", www.pbs.org.

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• We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

  Barack Obama

  Crush, Priorities, Als

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty - the realities of access to water and food - which creates the long-term drivers of our insecurity. Most wars are fought over scarce resources, and that is going to accelerate in the future.

  Rajiv Shah

  War, Reality, Long

  "Rajiv Shah: Our aid work is for the American people". Interview with Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.

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