National Security Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

  George Nethercutt

  Guarantees That, Rights, Justice

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• A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

  Peter Kuznick

  Home, Building Up, Stories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security.

  John Glenn

  Names, People, Doe

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• I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.

  John Kasich

  Years, Issues, Roles

  GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 06, 2015.

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

  Jeff Miller

  Guantanamo Bay, Facility, Guantanamo

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• I dream of a Digital India where cyber security becomes an integral part of our National Security.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Digital India, Cyber

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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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• Vladimir Putin is a Russian czar. He's kind of a mix of Peter the Great and Stalin. He's got both in his veins. And he looks out first and foremost for the national security interests of Russia. He accepts that, in Eastern Europe, that is a Russian backyard, that is a Russian sphere of influence. Ukraine lives most uncomfortably and unhappily in a Russian backyard.

  Marvin Kalb

  Russia, Ukraine, Europe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility of peacefully resolving a major threat to regional and international security. Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Race

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.

  Edward Snowden

  Agency, Years, Surveillance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Future, Issues, Twenties

  Robert D. Kaplan (2002). “The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War”, p.19, Vintage

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• Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning?

  Sam Nunn

  War, Fire, Russia

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• 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 fact that Edward Snowden didn't approach the New York Times hurt a lot. It meant two things. Morally, it meant that somebody with a big story to tell didn't think we were the place to go, and that's painful. And then it also meant that we got beaten on what was arguably the biggest national security story in many, many years. Not only beaten by the Guardian, because he went to the Guardian, but beaten by the Post, because he went to a writer from the Post. We tried to catch up and did some really good stories that I feel good about. But it was really, really, really painful.

  Dean Baquet

  Hurt, Thinking, Feel Good

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. All of those countries, in the wake of these surveillance revelations, rushed through laws that were basically ghostwritten by the National Security Agency to enable mass surveillance without court oversight, without all of the standard checks and balances that one would expect.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Agency, Law

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They`re not there to be partisans, they`re not there to be ideologues.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Ideologues, Advisors, Partisans

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In recent years the military has gradually been eased out of political life in Turkey. The military budget is now subject to much more parliamentary scrutiny than before. The National Security Council, through which the military used to exercise influence over the government is now a purely consultative body. But Turkish society still sees the military as the guarantor of law and order. The army is trusted, held in high regard - though not by dissident liberals. When things go wrong, people expect the military to intervene, as they've intervened over and over again in Turkish history.

  Andrew Mango

  Military, Exercise, Army

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• We have to have a president who is clear that you don't deal with Russia based on staring into his eyes and seeing his soul. You deal with Russia based on, what are your - what are the national security interests of the United States of America? And we have to recognize that the way they've been behaving lately demands a sharp response from the international community and our allies.

  Barack Obama

  Eye, Community, Soul

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.

  Liam Fox

  Stress, Needs, Unions

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I'm a very good friend of Stephen Crabb, I had great fun campaigning with Boris Johnson on the winning side, I have great experience working with Theresa May in government on national security. I respect all of them and I hope that's very much the tone.

  Liam Fox

  Fun, Good Friend, Winning

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• National security is vital for economic and social progress.

  Paul Kagame

  Progress, Economic, Social

  "Exclusive interview: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda". Interview with Tony Metcalf, www.metro.us. August 29, 2012.

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