John Brennan Quotes

Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

I believe that climate change represents one of the greatest threats to our national security and our planet.

Every national security threat that has been accepted has then been inflated.

Foreign travelers overstaying their visas to remain in the U.S. illegally represents one of the gravest national security threats to the homeland.

Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.

One of the most significant threats to our national security was and is home-grown Islamist terrorism.

I think to leave Europe would be a threat on the one hand to our economic security and on the other our national security.

There's a problem of terrorism in the world. There's always been terrorism. There will be terrorism. You have to deal with it surgically. You have to deal with it in a serious way.

The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary.

Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.

We have a situation where the security of America is at stake, and it's a very, very serious situation.

There will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001 - to false comfort in a dangerous world.

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

Hillary Clinton has jeopardized. Totally jeopardized national security by putting her e-mails on a private server, all to hide her corrupt dealings.

We could tell Americans everything is okay and nothing is going to happen. The fact is, there is a very real threat.

For many years the stakes were clear. There were the Arabs attacking us and us defending ourselves, so basically there were no real problems [between the United States and Israel]. Now there are many small cells, and each of them can destroy on their own. Some can arrive at New York and kill thousands of people.

While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is not constrained by geography - it can be accomplished in a number of different ways - which is what makes this threat so real and persuasive.

The spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat facing the country-and I would argue facing humanity.

I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never decide for commercial reasons to put something in that endangers our national security. You just can't do that.

Climate change is very real. It is a serious issue it should be treated that way... It is not just ours here in Iowa or even in the United States.

I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have.

Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception in both parties, to identify Osama bin Laden as a gangster or as a madman, as an apocalyptic character who's out to destroy our civilization.