Quotes About Security

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

Whatever their occupation, almost all organization people feel their particular job is depression-proof.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

Home is a shelter from storms — all sorts of storms.

Because we cannot predict the future, we diversify. —Paul Samuelson

When, and only when, you've gotten rid of all your debt are you truly saving for retirement.

It's pretty clear that there's a relationship between return and risk—you enjoy high returns only by taking substantial risk. If you want to earn high returns, be prepared to suffer grievous losses from time to time. And if you want perfect safety, resign yourself to low returns.

Act as if every broker, insurance salesman, mutual fund salesperson, and financial advisor you encounter is a hardened criminal, and stick to low-cost index funds, and you'll do just fine.

La rentabilidad elevada en la inversión no puede obtenerse sin asumir un riesgo sustancial. Las inversiones seguras producen escasos beneficios.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

In all my centers of life, in all those times I had seen the hug and the kiss good night, I had only watched. No Mother or Father had ever done those things to me. I knew their power; I knew that this ritual was a great protector of children during their journey through the night.

If we put everything in God's hands, maybe we don't have to be afraid anymore.

Nobody gets to you without going through me—and nobody's getting through me.

School isn't supposed to be dangerous. It's not a place they should be afraid of. It's their second home. It's where they spend most of their waking hours.

The old man opened the door with all the ease of the Venus de Milo cracking a safe.

The front door is usually unlocked and there is no alarm system. They don't wear their seat belts in the car; they don't wear suntan lotion in the sun. They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.

Judy, we think that since the 11th of September 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.

Benghazi was just one of at least 157 attacks on our diplomatic facilities over a 15-year period, 9 of which resulted in U.S. fatalities.

My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.

All that interconnectedness that facilitated much of the explosion of megawealth over the last decade also facilitated the interpenetration of everything, so no one or no building is truly isolated and 'safe' anymore. Safety is in getting along. (p.261)

Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.