National Security Quotes - Page 17

• President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks to terrorize us into retreating from the world stage. But President Obama has made it a priority to renew American leadership in the world, strengthening our alliances and deepening partnerships.

  John O. Brennan

  Play, Priorities, President

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• I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

  Michael Mullen

  Responsibility, Thinking, Information

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• The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.

  John O. Brennan

  Two, America, Law

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• National security adviser is not a position that requires confirmation. This is a pick that like [Donald Trump] Chief of Staff, he gets to choose on his own and have installed.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Confirmation, Staff, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they`re - if they`re competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Jobs, White, House

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Michael Flynn is] controversial among many people in the national security establishment, many people in the Republican mainstream. The thing about this appointment that, again, goes to me is most.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  People, Republican, Controversial

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Michael Flynn was one of Trump`s top national security advisors throughout the campaign.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Campaigns, Trump, Advisors

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I`m just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  President, Transition, Select

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty.

  Leon Panetta

  Honesty, President, Quality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States.

  Carlos Curbelo

  United States, Corporations, Makers

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

  David Brooks

  Ideas, Judging, President

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Zero, Thinking, White

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The fact that some former national security officials challenge the policy wisdom of the order, while other national security officials - most notably those of this [Donald Trump's] administration - support it, merely demonstrates that these are policy disputes that the judiciary is both ill-equipped and constitutionally barred from arbitrating.

  David B. Rivkin

  Order, Support, Challenges

  "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". Interview with James Downie, www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.

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• Michael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national security and defense.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Strong, Cutting, Views

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• General [Michael] Flynn has been in touch with diplomatic leaders, security leaders in some 30 countries. That's exactly what the incoming national security advisor should do.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Leader, Should

  Source: nymag.com

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• It wasn't until about a year, year and a half in where I began to realize that the Pentagon and our national-security apparatus and the CIA were all getting too comfortable with the technology as a tool to fight terrorism, and not being mindful enough about how that technology is being used and the dangers of a form of warfare that is so detached from what is actually happening on the ground. And so we initiated this big process to try to get it in a box.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Technology, Years

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Adam Schiff, who is of course the ranking member on the House Select Committee said earlier today I`d be worried about an impulsive president with an impulsive national security adviser.

  Kristen Welker

  House, President, Today

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Dinner with Vladimir Putin has] raised a lot of eyebrows among national security officials who looked at [Michael Flynn] and thought these kind of behaviors were not what they had thought what he was like previously.

  John Heilemann

  Eyebrows, Dinner, Kind

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.

  Barack Obama

  White, House, Decision

  Source: time.com

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• I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, Government

  Source: time.com

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• When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're president of the United States. Everybody around the world's paying attention. Markets move. National security issues require a level of precision in order to make sure that you don't make mistakes.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Moving, Order

  "President Barack Obama Holds Press Conference", pl.usembassy.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint efforts toward ensuring international security, and not only in the Far East.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Effort, East

  Source: www.rt.com

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• With the new Russia allegations coming to the fore once again, the conclusion of the intelligence agencies, we've got to have those [Donald Trump's] taxes to evaluate whether these conflicts go to the heart of our most pressing national security interests.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Heart, Russia, Agency

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• In the United States national security interests to have a working relationship with Russia.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Russia, United States, Interest

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public.

  Paula Broadwell

  Jobs, Defense, Peers

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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