Barack Obama Quotes About Security

• In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Mean

• Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Mistake

  "Barack Obama: climate deniers pose serious threat to US security" by Lauren Gambino, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2015.

• You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.

  Barack Obama

  War, Thinking, Talking

• I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.

  Barack Obama

  Team, People, Defense

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Family, Retirement

  Daily Labor Report, Issues 169-189, Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.

• This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are.

  Barack Obama

  War, Mean, Law

• Those who threaten Israel threaten us. Israel has always faced these threats on the frontlines. And I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel's security. That starts with insuring Israel's qualitative military advantage. I will insure that Israel can defend itself from any threat - from Gaza to Tehran.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Commitment, Israel

  Obama's speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), www.npr.org. June 4, 2008.

• I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don't think they want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship. I don't think they want more obstruction. They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive. That's not what they want. They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they're grappling with every single day.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

  Barack Obama's remarks at GOP House Issues Conference in Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 29, 2010.

• When it comes to immigration, I have actually put more money, under my administration, into border security than any other administration previously. We've got more security resources at the border - more National Guard, more border guards, you name it - than the previous administration. So we've ramped up significantly the issue of border security.

  Barack Obama

  Names, Issues, Immigration

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

  Barack Obama

  Zero, Important, Privacy

  Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

• We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Powerful, Military

  YouTube Channel "squawkboxnoise"/"Obama Civilian Security", www.youtube.com. July 17, 2008.

• This is American leadership at its best: We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Fighting, Safe Haven

  Statement by the President on ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2014.

• US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion.

  Barack Obama

  Agency, Nsa, Data

• Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.

  Barack Obama

  Climate, Serious, Threat

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.

  Barack Obama

  Determination, Moving, Native American

• But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America.

  Barack Obama

  Business, America, Climate

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

• The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.

  Barack Obama

  Nuclear Terrorism, Numbers, Nuclear Proliferation

  "U.S. announces new restrictions on nuclear weapon use", www.cnn.com. April 7, 2010.

• I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Technology, Israel

  Remarks by the President at Signing of the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 27, 2012.

• When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Mind, Pandemics

  "Grounding a Pandemic". New York Times OpEd by Barack Obama and Richard Lugar, www.nytimes.com. June 06, 2005.

• We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Oil, Energy

  Barack Obama's speech on the Budget in Northern Virginia dale, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 13, 2012.

• We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country

  Barack Obama

  Country, Independent, Fighting

• And we remember the end of our combat mission and the emergence of a new dawn - the precision of our efforts against al Qaeda in Iraq, the professionalism of the training of Iraqi security forces, and the steady drawdown of our forces. In handing over responsibility to the Iraqis, you preserved the gains of the last four years and made this day possible.

  Barack Obama

  War, Responsibility, Years

  Remarks by the President and First Lady on the End of the War in Iraq at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 14, 2011.

• We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, People, Pro Life

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

• For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Commitment, Sake

  Barack Obama's speech on Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 26, 2009.

• [America] will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, America, Presidential

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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