Quotes About Security

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality.

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.