National Security Quotes - Page 14

• Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Law, Borders

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• 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)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Life And Death, Matter

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• 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)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dirty, Secret, Underwear

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.527, Macmillan

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• Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

  Andrew Young

  Military, Army, Important

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• I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy.

  Allen West

  Suicide, Thinking, Tolerance

  "Rep. Allen West: U.S. Could Be Committing 'Cultural Suicide'". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 23, 2012.

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• There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Country, Real, Health

  Gro Harlem Brundtland's speech to the International Conference on Public Health in Bergen, Oslo, www.who.int. June 16, 2003.

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• We have no functioning parliament in Egypt and months ago Mohammed Morsi assumed legislative functions. Now he's decided that there should be no opposition to the laws that he makes and that he is authorized to pass any national security measure. It is difficult to be more absolutist than that. And the constitutional convention - what a sad gathering; it threatens to send us back to the darkest period of the Middle Ages.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Age, Difficult, Middle Ages

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

  John McCain

  Self, Environmental, Serious

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• Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of regulating climate, as impossible as that would be under any realistic scenarios. No national security emergency exists relative to climate that would warrant increased governmental control of energy production. Today's Americans have an obligation to future Americans to elect leaders who do not believe in an omnipotent government but believe, as did the Founders, in limited government, and in the preservation of liberty and the natural rights of the people.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Believe, Rights, Government

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• The U.S. ultimately decides what the national security threat is. They put Russia one, Iran two, China three - the terrorists are down the list. But it's amazing to me that we can still consider Russia a threat. On the contrary, they've been very helpful in the Middle East, trying to calm the situation and respect the rights of sovereign countries to exist. It's the U.S. that hasn't - whether in Serbia, the old Yugoslavia, in Africa, and now, Iraq.

  Oliver Stone

  Country, Trying, Calm

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.

  Simone Weil

  Country, War, Giving

  "The Power of Words (1937)". "Selected Essays 1934-1943". Book y Simone Weil, translated by Richard Rees, p. 224, 1957.

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

  Mitt Romney

  Nuclear Iran, World, Faces

  Source: genius.com

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• If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Wall, Government

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I think an increasing number of Republicans are perplexed and actually nervous about Donald Trump and Russia, nervous in the sense that he is gratuitously giving Democrats the national security advantage, that they're standing up for the country.

  Mark Shields

  Country, Thinking, Russia

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Air Force interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved.

  Joe W. Kelly

  Country, Military, Air

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• [Donald] Trump`s incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, spoke on the phone with Russia`s ambassador the same day President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and imposed new sanctions on Russia.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Phones, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets. President Obama now leaves in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won't be held accountable for their crimes.

  Paul Ryan

  Risk, Secret, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to try to resolve an intractable religious divide some 1,500 years in the making.

  Ted Cruz

  Religious, Military, Years

  "Cruz jumps into Iraq discussion" by Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. June 18, 2014.

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• Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

  Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  "A gag full of holes". www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2007.

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• Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Way, Damage

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Investigative journalism and reporting has become much more dangerous. This is especially true for journalists and sources in National Security - but it has been getting pretty bad for beat reporters and small outlets doing local reporting, too.

  Chelsea Manning

  Journalism, Outlets, Beats

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for example, "national security." Everyone says "national security" to the point that we now must use the term "national security." But it is not national security that they're concerned with; it is state security. And that's a key distinction.

  Edward Snowden

  Emotional, Keys, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

  Bill Shuster

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Oil

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• Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim as a vital part of Israel's national security and now he is going to leave. That is because of the 'effective armed struggle'.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Islamic, Struggle, Years

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• The courts were afraid to challenge executive declarations of what would happen. Now, over the last year, we have seen - in almost every single court that has had this sort of national-security case - that they have become markedly more skeptical.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Challenges, Lasts

  Source: www.thenation.com

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