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Quotes About Security

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
~ Bill Watterson
C++ protects against accident, not against fraud.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
There is some pleasure in being on board a ship battered by storms when one is certain of not perishing.
~ Blaise Pascal
There is some pleasure in being on board a ship battered by storms when one is certain of not perishing. The persecutions buffeting the Church are like this.
~ Blaise Pascal
Inside this building, the world had felt generous, limitless, like a safe spot for dreams to grow.
~ Blue Balliett
Things aren't secret here," Michelle said. "Everything is shared, which makes me feel safe. I know we're not going to get bought out, and I'm not going to lose my job. I hope we never get bought out. I don't want to work for a big corporation. I like ECCO the way it is. I know that if anything terrible happened, ECCO would do whatever it had to do to take care of me and whoever else needed it.
~ Bo Burlingham
Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.
~ Bob Dylan
A team box was tied down in the center holding everything from climbing ropes to arctic clothing to chemical/biological protection suits, parachutes, dry suits, spare radio batteries, two million in gold coins for barter, etc., etc.; someone with an extremely paranoid and inventive mind had packed it. Aka Nada.
~ Bob Mayer
Confident people are prepared people.
~ Bob Mayer
Why put an alarm where you are not?
~ Bob Mayer
d.c. is the nation's capital. It also leads the country in murder
~ Bob Mayer
Even though the CIA had acknowledged the place existed (it was on Google Earth now for frak's sake), that didn't mean they were holding an open house any time soon.
~ Bob Mayer
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. —Winston Churchill
~ Bob Shacochis
The machines were reliable and safe, he repeated to others as questions mounted. "They're not connected on the internet and they tabulate the votes by taking a thumb drive, encoded to a specific machine in a specific precinct, and taking that to a central location to transfer the votes and count them.
~ Bob Woodward
We need to know if the commander in chief is fully with us or not," Mattis said. "We can't fight a half-assed war anymore." In order for the military to succeed, Mattis needed Trump to be all-in on the strategy. "I'm tired of hearing that we have to do this or that to protect our homeland or to ensure our national security," Trump said.
~ Bob Woodward
many of the president's senior advisers, especially those in the national security realm, are extremely concerned with his erratic nature, his relative ignorance, his inability to learn, as well as what they consider his dangerous views.
~ Bob Woodward
The FBI conducts criminal investigations in addition to gathering intelligence.
~ Bob Woodward
Two days after the January 6, 2021, violent assault on the United States Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, General Mark Milley, the nation's senior military officer and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, placed an urgent call on a top secret, back-channel line at 7:03 a.m. to his Chinese counterpart, General Li Zuocheng, chief of the Joint Staff of the People's Liberation Army.
~ Bob Woodward
At 12:01 p.m., several Secret Service agents began reducing their setup around the estate. Trump was no longer president. No more access to the nuclear "football." The security footprint shrunk in an instant.
~ Bob Woodward
A missile from North Korea would take 38 minutes to reach Los Angeles.
~ Bob Woodward
Many foreign policy leaders had said that Trump gave Kim (Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea) too much by agreeing to meet without formal, written conditions. So, have you given Kim too much power? I asked. Kim had said he wouldn't shoot more ICBMs (Intercontinental ballistic missiles).Because if he's defiant, if he shoots one of those ICBMs, what are you going to do sir? If he shoots, he shoots, Trump said.
~ Bob Woodward
Number one," Bannon went on, "we're going to stop mass illegal immigration and start to limit legal immigration to get our sovereignty back. Number two, you are going to bring manufacturing jobs back to the country. And number three, we're going to get out of these pointless foreign wars.
~ Bob Woodward
amounting to a collapse of the Afghan state in months to years.
~ Bob Woodward
Radical Islam cannot be accommodated. It cannot be appeased.
~ Bob Woodward