Donald Trump Quotes

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

Intelligence gathered by this government leaves no doubt

I am unable to tell a quarter of a billion Americans what we are doing on their behalf, because if I did, it would become the table of contents of the training manual of the enemy.

I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

Hillary Clinton exposed our nation's most sensitive national security secrets to foreign adversaries.

Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?

There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.

I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes to one of our closest allies - Israel - President Obama has been resolute.

After 9/11, most Americans were in no mood to talk with our enemies in the Middle East, whatever those enemies' ideology, and the Bush administration's policies of invasion and pre-emption reflected that sentiment.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

Our safety requires a long-term military presence in the Middle East because that's where the plans to attack us are emanating.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

Iran does not yield easily in the standard tools of Western political analysis.

Any foreign policy that is formulated in secret intelligence will always get the nation in trouble… secret intelligence always gets it wrong. It is a sample of a small part of the world---a picture of the world that is dramatically skewed.

Communicate no other intelligence to Congress at large than what may be necessary to promote the common weal, not to gratify the curiosity of individuals.

As symbols of national power representing the people government of the United States, our embassies have become obvious targets for terror.

If the United States were attacked by rockets from one of our neighboring countries, we would be a lot tougher on them than Israel has been on the Palestinians. When we were attacked, we sent an army abroad and took over Afghanistan from the Taliban.

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.