Quotes About Security

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing.

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO.

I don't think Russia could start a war by attacking any of the NATO member states.

I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them.

We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure.

The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.

We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to break up NATO.

Russia's number-one goal is to pull apart the E.U., to pull apart NATO.

NATO should demonstrate that it is capable of creating new forces which would protect its eastern flank. It would constitute an enormous change.

Our future defence relationship with Europe should be complimentary - and not in competition to - NATO. It must be effective, too.

I don't believe Russia would attack a NATO country or NATO as such, no matter which country we are talking about.

We have every reason to put our trust in NATO and in transatlantic cooperation.

When it can be done safely and appropriately, U.S.-produced oil and natural gas is important, and domestic production has energy security benefits over importing those fuels.

Soviet spies were among the best in the business, but the semiconductor production process required more details and knowledge than even the most capable agent could steal.

Sobchak found Putin useful both because of his connections in the security services and for his understanding of foreign economies—a mix of old skills and new.

Putin's ability to maneuver between the city government, the security services, and the mafias that controlled many of the country's leading export industries.

At the same time, Putin's background in the security services facilitated his use of the law-enforcement apparatus. In his autobiography, Putin emphasized the unity of St. Petersburg's law-enforcement agencies during the early 1990s, a unity that he had helped to forge.

In 1996, one study reported, "26 tax collectors were killed, 74 were injured in the course of their work, 6 were kidnapped, and 41 had their homes burnt down.

Semiconductors weren't simply the "cornerstone" of "everything we're competing on," as one administration official had put it. They could also be a devastatingly powerful weapon.

The chip industry faced an organized assault by the world's second-largest economy and the one-party state that ruled it.