As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don’t know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they’re developing what’s called ‚nuclear capability,‘ which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That’s not a crime.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

He that’s secure is not safe.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

Iran is not a nation-state; it’s a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they’re not implemented fully, because the U.S. won’t allow it.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Law is always better than war.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

Saddam’s goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.