National Security Quotes

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.

I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.

We are trying to get a border wall to protect millions of low income Americans against folks who aren't supposed to be here. So, it's a national security.

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.

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

The greatest threat that the world faces, the greatest national security threat is a nuclear Iran.

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.

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.

Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its citizens.

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

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.

I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

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.

General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.

It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.

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)

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)

We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran.

I would urge that we all use a little bit of caution in dealing with an issue that is so vital to our national security.

The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander in chief.

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

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it down and to prepare for and ameliorate its impact.

The NSA may, or may not have rejected the invisible secret operative application form I never even bothered to have sent over to them. I'll never know...

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.

Your personal problem will bring national answer!

The gaping wound in America’s national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.

Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.