Donald Trump Quotes

If we want to defend the country, we have to defend against who's coming in.

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

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.

The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.

I'm very, very pro-defense.

General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.

President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important details in that field, which lead to a situation in which his aides played a much greater roles than aides would have played under President Ford or let us say in the whole Nixon-Ford-Kissinger era.

If you believe that the job of the federal government is to secure this country, it's really important for you to understand that success in Iraq is part of securing the country.

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.

It's our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.

When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.

I will not back down from defending America. I got elected on defense of our country. I keep my campaign promises, and our citizens will be very happy when they see the result.

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.

We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority.

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

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.

Let no one expect us to disarm unilaterally. We are not a naive people.

Our military structure and tactics have been designed more to protect the service interest than the national interest.

Moscow believes that using force constitutes strategic defense.

One of our pillars has to be national security - our nation's security both domestically and abroad.

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

The best way to defend America in this world we live in is to stay on the offense.