Security Quotes: Wise Words on Protection and Safety

"Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security"

"Distrust and caution are the parents of security"

"In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded"

Barack Obama, President

"I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

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

John Steinbeck, Author

"Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"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

"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally"

Mark Udall, Politician

"One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)"

Frank Gaffney, Writer

"I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher"

Richard Drew, Photographer

"From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed"

Daniel J. Bernstein, Mathematician

"Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing"

William Congreve, Poet

"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities"

John Acton, Historian

"I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous"

William Proxmire, Politician

"I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"There is nothing more dangerous than security"

Francis Walsingham, Celebrity

"One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality"

Allen West, Politician

"Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence"

Bernadette Devlin, Politician

"The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life"

Wayne Allard, Politician

"What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance"

John W. Thompson, Businessman

"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, Politician

"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, Actor

"I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13"

Vernon L. Smith, Economist

"I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis"

Jim Walsh, Politician

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