Quotes: Security

People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president’s. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.

The security of our country is not just a top priority, it’s the top priority.

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

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks’ pockets.

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives – and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

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