Security Quotes

"In an unpredictable world, NATO remains an anchor of stability, bringing together North America and Europe for our shared security"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power"

Alan Cohen, Businessman

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

Bob Graham, Politician

"The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"I grew up thinking that singing was my security"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes"

John Shadegg, Politician

"Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy"

Jim Costa, Politician

"We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa"

Sofia Vergara, Model

"There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11"

Bob Graham, Politician

"I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet"

Darrell Issa, Politician

"I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations"

John Perkins, Economist

"I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

"A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

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