Eisaku Sato Quotes

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

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

I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know.

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

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

This is not going to be decided by public opinion polls. It is a national security issue.

Undertaking to explain our foreign policy in terms of our public opinion is to explain one mystery in terms of another.

Are there topics of sufficient import to the nation's well-being to replace the Soviets as the focus of U.S. intelligence?

Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government.

National security looks different from the Oval Office than it does from a hotel room in Iowa.

Our national security is not a partisan issue.

National security is not just things that go boom. It is not just terrorists and foreign adversaries.

There's so many things, when you're in national security, that you do that aren't perfect, but you do them because you think you're doing what the country needs to be safe.

No one wants to friend or follow covert info about Pakistan's nuclear policy.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.

I have an interest in getting government officials to talk to me about National Security affairs. You know, that's my bread and butter; that's how I make my living.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

I would say national security is work in progress.

The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.