Quotes About Security

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.

Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?

I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.

The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to arbitrary and unreviewable detention and surveillance.

We must engage in a whole-of-government approach to combat Russian active measures.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt, ' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.