Security Quotes

The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.

~ George Eliot

The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.

~ Dick Cheney

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

~ Ellen Tauscher

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

~ George Mcgovern

Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises - in particular about prosperity, security - and, worst of all, has put us under a guardianship.

~ Marine Le Pen

With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.

~ Ronald Kessler

Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.

~ Bob Ainsworth

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

~ Billy Graham

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

~ Aaliyah

The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

~ Warren Rudman

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

~ Buzz Aldrin

Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it's the same with brains - some malfunction, and some, you can't hack into them at all.

~ Keith Barry

Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers.

~ James Gleick

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

~ Brian Kernighan

Technology businesses in general are susceptible to hacking. That's why you have to work really, really, really hard with law enforcement, with security experts, internal and external groups, to make sure you're paying attention and addressing security concerns.

~ Evan Spiegel

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

~ Adam Smith

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

~ Gwen Ifill

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.

~ William J. Clinton

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.

~ Douglas Alexander

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

~ John Grisham

At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.

~ Charlie Pierce

I think what we're going to hear is that we didn't meet the basic, minimum standards required for a facility such as the one we had in Benghazi. And the request for more security personnel went unheeded, unanswered, and consequently, you know, you have the death of four Americans.

~ Jason Chaffetz

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

~ David Souter

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

~ Benjamin Tucker

I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.

~ Damien Rice

Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.

~ Dennis C. Blair

To accomplish its mission, the FBI relies heavily upon its law enforcement and intelligence partners around the nation and around the globe. By combining our resources and our collective expertise, we are able to investigate national security threats that cross both geographical and jurisdictional boundaries.

~ James Comey

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

~ Mitt Romney

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I know that the CIA, Treasury Department, National Security Agency, and others work closely to keep tabs on the IRGC's operations.

~ Mike Pompeo

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.

~ David Blunkett

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

~ John O. Brennan

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

~ Doc Hastings

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

~ Gijs De Vries

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

~ Bob Graham

We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.

~ Michael Chertoff

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.

~ David Hunt

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

~ Anna Quindlen

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

~ Virgil Goode

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.

~ Vladimir Putin

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

~ William Godwin