#national security

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

— Lawrence Korb

#money #national #national security #need #security

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

— William Proxmire

#check #cloak #dangerous #doubly #especially

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

#capacity #congress #globally #iraq #marines

The border sheriffs are locally elected. They're accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected. ↗

— John Culberson

#because #border #elected #emergency #know

Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security. ↗

— Igor Ivanov

#automatic #believes #carries #council #does

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

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

#also #because #care #confront #criminality

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

#account #comprehensive #critical #economy #energy

Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#concerns #element #energy #energy needs #environmental