Security Quotes

"Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe"

"That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence"

Stephen Hadley, Politician

"Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners"

Dennis Ross

"Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford"

Phil Gramm, Politician

"Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government"

Joe Donnelly, Politician

"A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process"

Joschka Fischer, Politician

"The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in"

Trent Lott, Politician

"The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security"

Rob Simmons, Politician

"The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy"

Paul Sarbanes, Politician

"Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology"

Mark Warner, Politician

"I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors"

Mac Thornberry, Politician

"The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate"

Frank Keating

"I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago"

Tom Ridge, Politician

"Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change"

James A. Leach, Politician

"Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve"

Tammy Baldwin, Politician

"We have an illusion of security, we don't have security"

Isaac Yeffet

"After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country"

Isaac Yeffet

"It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments"

Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education"

Joschka Fischer, Politician

"Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution"

Bobby R. Inman

"Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks"

Tom Vilsack, Politician

"The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens"

Thomas Vilsack, Politician

"Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security"

Mike Ross, Politician

"With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security"

Lois Capps, Politician

"Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world"

Zalmay Khalilzad, Diplomat

"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, Statesman

"Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management"

Kevin Mitnick, Celebrity

"The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty"

John Warner, Politician

"The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security"

Jack Reed, Politician

"We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation"

John Thune, Politician

"Social Security is an extremely complicated program"

John Thune, Politician

"A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy"

Heather Wilson, Politician

"We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security"

Lawrence Korb

"Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement"

Scott Cook, Businessman

"Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look"

Conrad Bums

"While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things"

Robert Southey, Poet

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