Security Policy Quotes

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

There were precisely two groups of people who desperately wanted airport security to be browbeaten into giving suspicious passengers a pass: terrorists and Democrats.

The no-first-use policy for nuclear weapons was a well thought out stand... We don't intend to reverse it.

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

We should be worried about protecting the homeland. I think that policy is changing, should change and will change.

NATO is indispensable to America's national security.

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

So in terms of the global economic footprint, let's just say China within the next decade and a bit is likely to emerge as the world's largest economy. Obviously its foreign policy and security policy footprint increases and that creates both challenges and opportunities for us all.

It has been clear for some time now that we have to do more for domestic and external security. I am prepared for that.

We had no domestic attacks under Bush.

I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.

We’ve spent more time debating what to call extremism than we have discussing a long-term strategy for defeating it. If we don’t wrestle with the long-term, every four years a different president and a different foreign minister will be facing a different terror group with a different acronym.

Using these new funds, I will ask my secretary of defense to propose a new defense budget to meet the following longtime goals.

Counter-terrorism is not solely a military matter.

Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

The first priority of the Republican majority is the security of Americans.

The border is safe; it's secure. El Paso is the safest city in America. Let's own that. Let's be proud of that. And then, I think, good policy can follow from that, better outcomes included.

One of the biggest challenges for any Home Secretary - indeed, any government - is how we deal with emerging threats.

Peace and security for the United States depend on building principled, constructive, clear-eyed relations with our former great-power adversaries.

Patrick Murphy's decision to support a deal that infuses the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism with $150 billion, confers international legitimacy on Iran's expansive nuclear program, and even allows Iran to inspect its own military sites demonstrates a lack of judgment and inexperience in matters of national security.

Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

The president of the United States is the commander in chief, and the people who work with him at the National Security Council are his arm in working with the Defense Department. And, quite frankly, they have responsibility for all of the government. We are one component of the government.

There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.