Quotes About Security

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

We're an organization with a clear objective: to protect the American people. We have a number of missions that feed into that, to protect America, and one of those missions we share with the council, which is to help our policymakers make sense of global events.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.

It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.

There are many elements needed to secure economic growth. Certainly, people must be politically free to innovate, invest, build, and create things, and they must be incentivized to do so by knowing they can keep the rewards for their efforts.

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11.

The pope is a very... passionate man. He likes to get out with the people, and with that comes a large security risk.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.

It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.

At its height, Guantanamo's population of alleged combatants swelled to nearly 800.

What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

Our policy is if you break the law, we will prosecute you. You have an option to go to a port of entry and not illegally cross into our country.

We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.