National Security Quotes - Page 3

• In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to ensure that telephone companies and other carriers provide law enforcement with access to this new technology.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Technology, Order, Law

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• Islamic terrorists are the greatest security threats to the United States, both domestically and abroad. We need to be vigilant every day. Now, every citizen has to be vigilant because they are vital links in the national security chain.

  Ralph Abraham

  Islamic, Needs, Citizens

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• I think we're in a new era where the advancing tide is towards human unity, where people all around the world want to come together. The United States is in a position where it can lead the way towards that and it can do it in practical ways by affirming the power of the United Nations so that the international process makes decisions on international security.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.

  Timothy Geithner

  Senior, Cutting, Class

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• The real secrets start leaking out when there are too many secrets because people can't remember what's a real secret. There's a very famous line by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy: "If you guard your toothbrushes and your diamonds with equal zeal, you'll lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds." And that's where we are right now.

  Ted Gup

  Real, People, Secret

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Hero, Agency, Guy

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

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Sound, Absurd

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• I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Thinking, Self, Would Be

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• I would note that the scripture tells us, "you shall know them by their fruit." We see lots of "campaign conservatives." But if we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative, someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

  Ted Cruz

  Winning, Needs, Campaigns

  Republican presidential primary debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Remember, it is the president's constitutional duty to provide a strong national defense. Don't insert politics into national security. Listen to your ground commanders. They know better than anyone what our military's needs are. Have somebody strong at home who can provide you with needed support 'off the battle field.'

  Ryan Zinke

  Strong, Military, Home

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

  Peter King

  Believe, Nsa, Moral

  "Is Edward Snowden a Hero? A Debate with Journalist Chris Hedges & Law Scholar Geoffrey Stone". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.truth-out.org. June 13, 2013.

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• One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis Leave the bullshit in Cambridge.

  Dan Brown

  Senior, Bullshit, Advice

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• I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

  Bob Graham

  Years, Two, Surfing

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• Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.

  John O. Brennan

  Government, People, Office

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

  Jon Porter

  Talking, Law, People

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• Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Women, Opportunity

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• So that all the people who say, you know, "All the media hates America." A lot of the media does hate America but this is a case of, actually, the press doing its best, I think, to do the right by national security. So good for them.

  Tucker Carlson

  Hate, Thinking, Media

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

  Ivan Illich

  Military, Race, Productive Work

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.

  John Garamendi

  Careers, Desire, Energy

  "Electric Current Events: Middle East Revolutions and the Need to Revolutionize American Clean Energy" by Rep. John Garamendi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2011.

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• My time in the Army gave me an understanding for what it takes to provide for our national security and what it means to our service members and their families.

  James Inhofe

  Mean, Army, Understanding

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• Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces - and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Struggle, Pay The Price, Nsa

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• I'm not surprised that Governor Dean would oppose [the $87 billion to fund Iraq reconstruction].... I've lost confidence that he has any understanding of the national security responsibilities of a President... [b]ecause I don't believe that he has any understanding of the international role that the United States has to play in the world. I think it's a kind of a pseudo-isolationism that appeals to the base of the caucus voters. I do not believe that particularly in the case of Iraq that Governor Dean has any fundamental understanding of what's at stake here.

  John McCain

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

  Bob Schieffer

  Government, Way, Complicated

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• We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Justice, Mess, Birthright

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.143, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

  Alexander Haig

  Israel, Soldier, Doe

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