Duncan Hunter Quotes

We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.

Less care for internationalism and more concern for national prosperity!

Investment by any foreign company in any element of the U.K.'s Critical National Infrastructure should receive careful scrutiny.

Trudeau claims he's wary about Chinese espionage, but also says there's nothing wrong with Chinese state-owned enterprises buying up as much of Canada's resource sector as it likes.

China has always been very hospitable, but we can choose who enters our house. We could not allow any companies to enter China and make money while hurting the country.

China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That's not a good position to be in.

Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government.

No one wants to return to the old protectionism, but we need to protect our own…. We are committed to the unrestricted defense of national interests.

Perhaps the globalization potion is too strong for us today; it should be watered down with some measure of economic nationalism.

The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security.

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

Trade has always existed, but we used to defend our strategic interests. Could you imagine the United States allowing French engineering giant Alstom to purchase General Electric? I don't think so.

The state is the legal embodiment of the nation. Political institutions are efficient to the extent to which they express and safeguard national interests.

When you are confronted with a genuine emergency, then I think you have to look at the interest of the country first.

As long as Americans believe that their country has vital interests everywhere on earth, they will behave the same.

The Executive [Abraham Lincoln] is frequently compelled to affix his signature to bills of the highest importance, much of which he regards as wholly at war with the national interests.

I met with President [Hugo] Chávez at one point, because he was very concerned that Brightstar had a 70 percent share of the Venezuelan market. He said, “Explain that to me, when you’re an American company.” I said, “No, we’re not an American company. We are a Venezuelan company, with Venezuelan employees, with a Venezuelan leader, owned by an American company, and that is very different.

Mr. Trump has been consistent in some areas. Since the late 1980s, he has nurtured a set of preoccupations, chiefly that America's allies - Japan and Saudi Arabia among them - are ripping America off.

China's growth and stability is a vital issue for all nations.

A vital part of Trump's appeal was his promise to make America emphatically great again, staunching the haemorrhage of jobs and investment to China and Mexico, and cutting back on handouts to NATO and illegal migrants.

The reason CAFTA should be enacted is not economic benefits: it is national security.

Government should make tough decisions in the larger national interests, even if it upsets the people.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

In short, I will never allow partisanship to undermine our national security when the lives of countless people lay in the balance. If that earns me enemies in Washington or at the State Department, then so be it.

I had opposed the Jet-Etihad FDI arrangement on the ground of the disproportionate share of airspace given to Etihad, which is against the interest of domestic passenger traffic and also against national interest.