Quotes About Security

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.

In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.

Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

We probably could more successfully resolve the North Korean nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. We could successfully resolve what American leaders seem to perceive as an Iranian nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning.

When you look at Syria, and you look at all the militant groups on the ground, there are many groups in Syria that could pose a threat to the United States, not just Khorasan.

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.

Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while thanking our military is standard practice in American life, no one thinks of thanking the FBI, the CIA, or the rest of the intelligence community for keeping us safe since 9/11.

Admitting hundreds of thousands of infiltrators is an existential threat to the State of Israel.

Israel's security doctrine is not that Israel must invade every place from which a threat to Israel emanates.

While our nation's attention is rightly focused on the Middle East, the North Korean threat has grown exponentially, while there seems to be a falling asleep, so to speak, at the switch when it comes to North Korea.

I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

In terms of the breadth of the threat of Al Qaeda itself - it's not the only terrorist organization, and it works with others as cells around the world in at least 60 countries. You potentially are talking about tens of thousands of followers who can be conscripted into service to carry out a terrorist plot.

The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda. ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.

The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.

Your parents' al Qaeda was a very different model than the threat we face today.

I know there's a lot of discussion about building a 2000-mile wall. I think we need to complete the Secure Fencing Act, but we need greater technology and aviation aspects down on the Southwest border so we can see the threat from the sky. Until you can see it, you don't know where it's coming from and how to correctly stop it.

The threat is real, and it comes from the Internet. This is a new generation of terrorist. This is not Bin Laden in caves with couriers anymore. This is what the new threat of terrorism looks like.

Our United States military is not our threat.