Quotes About Security

When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee.

The more we captured, the more we learned and eventually it destroyed the organization that attacked us on 9/11 and allowed us to get bin Laden.

Our bureaucracy had excelled at compartmentalizing intelligence - we had a 'need to know' system - but by 2004, it was impossible to foresee what elements of our organization would and would not need to know a given piece of information.

I like a challenge. The fact that these are secret organizations, and also very important organizations that can engage in abuses that are so important to our national security - all that attracts me.

The biggest change is that production has become organized, there is proper funding. It is more secure. Earlier, some people used to put in their money and if the money is not enough, it would go down the drain.

The things that I was building on originally for the defense of our democracies had been completely inverted to really, in my view, attack our democracies.

Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur.

This Oscar Pistorius business is interesting. There is this cult of carrying lots of guns and being ready to shoot somebody. There were people I knew had guns and carried them openly around Johannesburg. It is frowned on now to carry a gun, but Pistorius and co. got away with it.

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

We don't depend on other countries to keep our armed services equipped.

One of the flaws in the American dream is that there isn't as much of a safety net as you may get in other countries.

Shouldn't India, too, like other countries, protect its national interests?

Not like other countries, we will never ask anyone to fight for us.

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.

We ought to disarm Germany completely.

My position on immigration has been clear for a long time. I believe the federal government ought to do their job. You know, secure our borders. Come up with an immigration policy that Americans understand and people who want to come to this country understand.

We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.

We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.

Unfortunately cybercrime is the crime of our generation.

I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives.

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

I think more and more, in places like Benghazi, in places like Iran, we have to be asking the question, can we trust the local government to protect our people?

America was once the safest place. I used to ask our people why they were going there. They used to say America is the safest place.

The number of people in America killed by firearms is extraordinary compared to other nations, and I don't think we're a bloodthirsty country. We need to look at everything we can do to safeguard our people.