Quotes about Presidential Security

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

If something awful happens to the President, we’ll get another President.

Nathaniel Gleicher

In the 110 years since the Secret Service began protecting the President, only seven assailants have actually reached their target, and only one has accomplished his goal. The Secret Service has maintained this record despite the President meeting tens of thousands of people during his term, and speaking at hundreds of public events every year.

Cybersecurity defenders face a similar problem: they are defending high-value assets that must be protected, but also have to speak to hundreds or thousands of other servers. But our cybersecurity record doesn't look as successful – 2,260 data breaches in 2015 alone, with the majority of intruders taking only minutes to compromise systems, and the majority of defenders taking days to identify a breach.

Eleanor Clift

Anyone who gets too close to President Bush will get burned.

George W. Bush had become very unpopular and many politicians were trying to distance themselves from him, his policies, and the poor implementation of those policies. Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat, had just lost his own primary election and was attacked because he advocated support of the American president in war and foreign policy.

Lydia Millet

I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?

Maureen Dowd

The White House seems to be a sound-proof booth.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I sent the President [JFK] a telegram marked SECRET to be sure that it had wide distribution.

John F. Kennedy

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

Robert Jeffress

I've said I want the meanest, toughest SOB I can find to protect America. And so that's why Trump's tone doesn't bother me.

Majel Barrett

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

James Woods

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

Louis R. Chenevert

We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.

Mark Hanna

There are many diseased minds in this country.

George Stephanopoulos

Protected by a no-fly zone, surrounded by protesters, Trump Tower is buzzing with intensity. The president-elect's family, loyalist advisers and wannabes all jockeying for position.

H. W. Brands

Once you become president, you don't even have to stop for red lights. And if it looks like traffic's too bad, you just take a helicopter.

Ben Affleck

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

Richard Nixon

When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

Dan Bongino

The mission of the Secret Service (to keep the president of the United States safe and secure) is, by its very nature, pivotal to the proper functioning of the country, and any failure to accomplish this mission has the potential to cause an immediate international crisis.

Don DeLillo

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

David Letterman

Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.'

David Letterman

Last night we had Bill Clinton, the former president. Security was as tight as Governor Christie's yoga pants.

David Letterman

President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.

Abraham Lincoln

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

The artist, Francis B. Carpenter, visited Lincoln at the White House and saw some of the hateful and threatening letters the president had received. He asked the President how he dealt with them. Today, such mail is filtered by staff and turned over to the Secret Service for possible investigation.

George W. Bush

The office moves with the President

Bob Beckel

Disney World is exactly the wrong description of how the Secret Service should operate in public. Their jobs are not about pleasing adults and children, but rather protecting the president and the first family.

Jimmy Fallon

This week a man was arrested for jumping over the White House fence and trying to spray paint a political message. If that guy really wanted to get a message to the president, he could have just written it in an email to literally anyone.

Presidential Security Quotes