Peter Mansoor Quotes

I will work hard to ensure Hawaii's strategic position in our national security remains strong.

I can only say this, a very, very important element of any country, but our country, and in my opinion, the single most important thing that a president can do is the defense of our country.

I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy, about national security, about how we structure our forces and about how we use U.S. military power.

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do.

Moscow believes that using force constitutes strategic defense.

Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.

We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

A stronger defense is an investment in peace.

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

I think one of the reasons I'm standing here instead of other people is that, frankly, I talked about it, we have to have a strong military.

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

If they listen to the military people, we probably wouldn't be having an ISIS right now.

A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

We need a president who understands the first obligation of the commander-in-chief is to keep America safe. If I am elected president, we will hunt down and kill the terrorists. We will utterly destroy ISIS.

Now let me make it clear that I believe there can only be one defense policy for the United States and that is summed up in the word 'first.' I do not mean first, but. I do not mean first, when. I do not mean first, if. I mean first - period.

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

It's only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we're properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.

It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offense because people do want to hurt us.

The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is.