Foreign Threats Quotes

In vain do they worship peace at home, who cannot defend themselves against foreigners.

We want, certainly, the threats around the world, those that don't like our way of life, we want them to wonder what options we still have.

Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries.

Our country is in danger, not only from foreign enemies, but from our own policies.

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

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

The federal government has the responsibility to protect the nation's public health, to protect us from foreign threats. And it [Zika] really is an illness that we are seeing arrive from abroad. So it is a threat to public health, and it is the federal government's job to cooperate in this.

America must keep jihad out, especially when we know exactly where it is coming from.

I support anything that we can do, including investigations or otherwise, to protect Americans from foreign interference in all of our good work that we need to do in the United States, whether it be our elections, whether it be our businesses, whether it be our electric grids.

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

Russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the Russian Federation.

Many threats to the homeland begin overseas, and that's where we need to be.

FISA is one of the most important investigative tools we've got in preventing our adversaries from harming our country.

Because 9/11 was carried out by 19 foreign-born Arab hijackers, many assume that all terrorists who attack the West are foreigners.

It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch successful attacks against foreign adversaries.

As individuals and as a nation we have become dependent on a vast digital infrastructure. That, in turn, has made us vulnerable to cybercriminals and foreign adversaries that target that infrastructure.

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're going to do. How many times did [Osama] bin Laden say prior to 9/11 that he was coming after the U.S.? ISIS made clear that when they established their caliphate in Iraq and Syria, they were coming after the United States too.

Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved too numerous or formidable in arms - even when those enemies were grim Macedonians or Germans. Rather, in times of peace and prosperity there arose an unreal view of the world beyond their borders, one that was the product of insularity brought about by success, and an intellectual arrogance that for some can be the unfortunate byproduct of an enlightened society.

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

As threats emerge - from ISIS to Russia to the Iranian nuclear program - we need a president with the resolve to defend our country and not back down.

I am very committed to the FBI being agile in its tackling of foreign threats. But I believe you can be agile and still scrupulously follow our rules, policies and processes.