national security quotes

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor. I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

As strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

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.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

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.

I didn’t want to set up a women’s studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it’s male-dominated.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

There’s no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

I don’t know a country in the world that doesn’t have borders and doesn’t want to know who is coming into their country.