#national security

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

#attacks #back #community #force #gulf

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#america #based #come #experience #fascism

Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, with the kind of cuts that they've made in their national security budget. ↗

— Robert Kagan

#budget #cuts #international #itself #kind

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

#among #competing #fully #functioning #healthy

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it. ↗

— George McGovern

#commit #national #national security #our #patriotic

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security. ↗

— Zell Miller

#john kerry #kerry #like #national #national security

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy. ↗

— Oliver North

#american #american foreign policy #coordinate #council #foreign

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. ↗

— Barack Obama

#avian #beyond #come #first #flu

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#destroyed #habitat #honest #important #important things

I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#back #believe #bottom #front #fruits