National Security Quotes - Page 4

• One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

  John Poindexter

  Speaks Out, Community, Defense

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• The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA's] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist.

  Al Gore

  Running, Years, Usa

  "'I Am Optimistic'". Interview with Philip Bethge, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 02, 2009.

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• I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

  Joe Lieberman

  Mean, Responsible Government, Around The World

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• Iran's nuclearization is the greatest single national security threat America faces.

  Mitt Romney

  Iran, America, Faces

  "Face the Nation" with Jan Crawford, www.cbsnews.com. July 29, 2012.

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• Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea that you have to torture people in order to protect national security is a false argument, and I reject it.

  John McCain

  Order, Ideas, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Fighting, Doe, Study

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• If enough citizens believe their national security’s in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need.

  James Morcan

  War, Believe, Support

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• It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security.

  Nancy Pelosi

  War, Issues, People

  "Pelosi tells Obama to act on Syria" by Jonathan Allen and Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. August 29, 2013.

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• Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Women, Opportunity

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• it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Principles, Sitting, Congress

  "Rice Leads Counterattack". "60 minutes", www.cbsnews.com. March 28, 2004.

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• The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.

  Ian Bremmer

  Curves, Risk, Transition

  "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall". Book by Ian Bremmer, 2006.

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• Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.

  Andrew Saul

  War, Abortion, Immigration

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• For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.

  Susan Rice

  Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Disarmament, United States

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• Remember, it is the president's constitutional duty to provide a strong national defense. Don't insert politics into national security. Listen to your ground commanders. They know better than anyone what our military's needs are. Have somebody strong at home who can provide you with needed support 'off the battle field.'

  Ryan Zinke

  Strong, Military, Home

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• If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Election, Quitting, States

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• Any military force should be dictated by the vital national security interests of the United States. And if and when we use force, we should use overwhelming force for a clearly stated objective. And then when we're done, we should get the heck out.

  Ted Cruz

  Military, Ifs And, United States

  "Ted Cruz on opposition to trade bill, ObamaCare alternative". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.

  Barack Obama

  United States, Population, Cost

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• ...the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

  Jeff Miller

  Guantanamo Bay, Facility, Guantanamo

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• As the Democrats get revved up at their convention in Boston, President Bush is fighting back the only way he knows how: by going on vacation! Ah, it's nice to take a rest, replenish your supply of smirks. The vacation was expected, because Bush traditionally takes a month off every summer to relax and avoid reading National Security Warnings.

  Craig Kilborn

  Summer, Nice, Reading

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• The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Opportunity, Ideas, People

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• For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Years, People, Generations

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.6, New Word City

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• I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Thinking, Self, Would Be

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• Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, who has worst voting record in Senate, just hit me on national security - but I said don't go into Iraq.

  Donald Trump

  Iraq, Voting, Records

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Sep 23, 2015

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• There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this government to conduct signals intelligence and the ability of this government to carry out its mission of protecting national security information from hostile exploitation.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Real, Government, Information

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• There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have a balance between realpolitik and Wilsonian principles of freedom and democracy and human rights. And maintaining that balance is the greatest challenge that we in the West, including the Federal Republic of Germany, have to face because it's many times a very difficult decision-making process.

  John McCain

  Rights, Decision, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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