Security Quotes

"To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people"

George W. Bush, President

"A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that"

Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer

"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"There is no such thing as security. There never has been"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation"

Craig L. Thomas, Politician

"There can be no security where there is fear"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"Never surrender opportunity for security"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

"The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces"

Craig L. Thomas, Politician

"The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

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