Geraldine Ferraro Quotes

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

I don’t have a problem going after people who want to attack this country

As governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies.

America is carrying out policies against Russia and its leadership. They know I'm among those ready to give my life for Russia and that I have a good army capable of attacking and defending. We'll see who comes out on top.

Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

Poor Wilson did not understand that a frontier which is not defended with bayonets, force and honor cannot be secured by any other principle.

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

The safety of the country stands above all other considerations, and no matter what the cost, the safety of the country must be assured.

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion … and you allow him to make war at pleasure. … If today he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may see no probability he would say to you, “Be silent!, I see if you don’t.”

For better or worse the country has no alternative other than trust the President when we are at war.

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.

If there is going to be a war – and no one can say that there is not – we must keep him fresh to be our war Prime Minister

The organizing premise of any nation's foreign policy is the protection of the homeland.

We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth: We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations—acting individually or in concert—will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

Our immediate job is defense. We will play offense soon enough, but right now it is defense…. Your job is to keep America free by making Americans feel safe again

… a rich nation always defends itself badly.

The Blue and White government, led by me, will assemble the strongest security cabinet against terrorism and restore deterrence.

I promise you, I promise you that Donald Trump knows, Donald Trump knows that the primary role of the president is to keep us safe.

I would not want to be a leader of a country that had launched ICBMs against the United States.

Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.

Let's put the safety and security of the American people first.

Once we got hit by - on 9/11 and lost 3,000 people that day, we recognized, and it was one of the key decisions President Bush made, that this is not a law enforcement problem, it is a strategic threat to the United States. It's a war. And based on that, we then adopted a whole set of policies that flowed out of that proposition.