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Quotes About Security

There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.
~ Ali Liebegott
I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.
~ James Denton
Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.
~ Todd Tiahrt
We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
~ Jackie Speier
Terrorists need no excuse to attack us here. They've shown that for decades and decades. We should be proud for the way we treated these savages at Guantanamo Bay and the way our soldiers conduct themselves all around the world to include the people doing the very hard work at Guantanamo Bay.
~ Tom Cotton
If an African-American or a recent immigrant - or anyone else, for that matter - can't feel secure walking into a police station or up to a police officer to report a crime, because of a fear that they're not going to be treated well, then everything else that we promise is on a shaky foundation.
~ William Bratton
We live in a dangerous world, and Russia has not complied with existing treaties.
~ Chuck Fleischmann
The administration says, then, there are no downsides or upsides to treating terrorists like civilian criminal defendants, but a lot of us would beg to differ.
~ Sarah Palin
Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
~ Ban Ki-moon
I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.
~ Lois Capps
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
~ Salman Rushdie
Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a secure Israel.
~ Stephen Kinzer
When 9/11 happened, it changed things overnight, giving the biggest shock treatment to individual agency. People in the U.S., the absolute stronghold of individualism and libertarianism, had to give up many cherished freedoms and privacies in exchange for the promise of public safety.
~ Rohini Nilekani
You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.
~ Melania Trump
My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don't really care if it's a Shiite, a Sunni, a Kurd, or a Turkoman that's providing them security as long as that force treats them with respect.
~ H. R. McMaster
The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.
~ James G. Stavridis
For the United States to be a global leader, we have to have a very tight relationship with Europe. And we've held that relationship since 1949 when we established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. NATO is the bond. It's a security bond.
~ Wesley Clark
The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.
~ Ludwig Quidde
We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
~ Valerie Plame
We did a 'Vanity Fair' spread for 'The Hunger Games,' and we were on set, and I saw a little head pop up from the tree. There were three teenage girls who snuck past security and made it into the forest.
~ Alexander Ludwig
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.
~ Kenzaburo Oe
You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.
~ Doc Hastings
The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.
~ Otto Schily