National Security Quotes - Page 18

• 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.

  Paula Broadwell

  Dream, Stars, Athlete

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• The extraordinary thing that we saw here is the incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, basically having a text messages back and forth with the Russian ambassador to the United States.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Messages, United States, Ambassadors

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Intellectual, United States, General James Mattis

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.

  Richard Neal

  Country, Believe, Expanding

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• In our counterterrorism cases and our counterintelligence cases, we can issue all kinds of - of layers of approval in the FBI, a national security letter to find out the subscriber to a particular telephone number and to find out what numbers that telephone number was in contact with. Not the content of those communications, but just the connection.

  James Comey

  Communication, Kind, Fbi

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Issues, People, Demand

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• The president recognizes that funding global health is good for national security, domestic health and global diplomacy. Consequently, President Obama has steadily increased funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which was created by President Bush and has strong bipartisan support.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Strong, Support, President

  "The HIV/AIDS Fight Needs Cooperation, Not Division" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2010.

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• The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.

  Roger Mahony

  War, Oil, Rising

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• Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases. The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases. There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States. This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.

  Alan Bersin

  Mexican, Immigration, Program

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Law, Immigration, Scams

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• I think it's very, very important that in foreign policy and national security decision making, as in any other realm, that there be a range of diversity that reflects the full complexity of America. We should draw on those experiences to inform our decision making.

  Susan Rice

  Thinking, America, Diversity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We ought to be doing much more in North America. We are on the cusp of an energy revolution. And we do need to be doing more at home. The biggest national security threats facing the United States right now are not in the Middle East. They are domestic.

  Richard N. Haass

  Home, Energy, Revolution

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• That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple agencies, teeing up decisions that make sense for the president.

  Greg Miller

  Decision, Trying, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It should never be the goal of U.S. foreign policy towards any country to have a - quote, unquote - "good relation." Then what? What do we get out of that? We get - Trump is helping the approval ratings amongst Russians. How does that advance American national security interests?

  Michael McFaul

  Country, Goal, Helping

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.

  John Garamendi

  Justice, Allies, Cooperation

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• Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wmd, Organization, Iraq

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• 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.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Science, Math, Citizens

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• I agree with the basic principle that anybody who wants to serve in our armed forces and make sacrifices on our behalf, on behalf of our national security, anybody should be able to serve. And they shouldn't have to lie about who they are in order to serve.

  Barack Obama

  Lying, Sacrifice, Order

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Misunderstood, Politics, Action

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

  Mark Udall

  Moving, Marine, Army

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• 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.

  Mitch McConnell

  Team, Office, Want

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Back in March, before Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, a group of national security heavyweights signed an open letter that called Trump fundamentally dishonest and utterly unfit for the presidency. Now, two days after Trump's victory, some in the national security establishment are wondering whether to return to the fold.

  Ari Shapiro

  Two, Heavyweights, Victory

  "National Security Elites Consider Whether To Work For Trump". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, publicradioeast.org. November 10, 2016.

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

  Nat Hentoff

  Agency, Support, Agents

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?

  Sean Hannity

  Giving Up, Danger, Airmen

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• In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.

  John Heilemann

  People, Campaigns, Roles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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