Security Quotes

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

~ Thomas Paine

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

~ Theresa May

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

~ Mitch Mcconnell

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

~ Mike Pence

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.

~ Kit Bond

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

~ L. Neil Smith

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

~ Ibrahim Babangida

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

~ Bill Owens

From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States.

~ Mel Martinez

Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril.

~ Michael Hayden

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

~ Joseph Story

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

~ James Madison

The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.

~ Anna Lindh

The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.

~ George B. Mcclellan

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

~ Anna Lindh

We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.

~ Joko Widodo

I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.

~ Denis Villeneuve

Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.

~ Lee Kuan Yew

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

~ A. J. P. Taylor

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.

~ Ariel Sharon

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

~ Ingrid Bergman

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

~ Gordon Ramsay

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

~ George Michael

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

~ John F. Kennedy

Our only security is our ability to change.

~ John Lilly

Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.

~ Li Keqiang

The precondition to freedom is security.

~ Rand Beers

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

~ Suze Orman

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

~ Robert Redford

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

~ Dan Lipinski

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

~ Henri Nouwen

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

~ Tom Stoppard

The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

~ Barton Gellman

Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.

~ J. D. Hayworth

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

~ Jose Maria Aznar

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

~ Joe Lieberman

There's no legal protection for cyborgs. In 2010, I started the Cyborg Foundation to defend our rights. Cyborgs have been kicked out from several places because they are seen as a possible security threat. I've been kicked out from places such as Harrods, Casino Montecarlo, and many supermarkets.

~ Neil Harbisson

We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

~ Igor Ivanov