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Should National Security Issues be decided by a Local Referendum? -- Arun Jaitley
Obama's respect for the Constitution does not apply to protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as Obama's deeply intrusive National Security Agency programs prove. -- Ben Shapiro
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? -- Robert Redford
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. -- Barack Obama
Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability. -- Glenn Greenwald
'National Security' is the root password to the Constitution. -- Phil Karn
The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security. -- John F. Kennedy
I dream of a Digital India where cyber security becomes an integral part of our National Security. -- Narendra Modi
The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency. -- Nat Hentoff
We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency. -- Edward Snowden
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
It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year. -- Edward Snowden
[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe. -- Glenn Greenwald
I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing. -- Dan Brown
My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public. -- Paula Broadwell
If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit. -- Hamilton Jordan
In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National Security Agency building the world's giantest spy center. -- Heather Brooke
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
Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism. -- Sidney Blumenthal
What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President. -- Philip Agee
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents. -- Barton Gellman
Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists...when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading your emails, it's better not to know whether yet another entity is watching you. -- Pamela Druckerman
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
Investigative journalism and reporting has become much more dangerous. This is especially true for journalists and sources in National Security - but it has been getting pretty bad for beat reporters and small outlets doing local reporting, too. -- Chelsea Manning
The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never balanced. It was always tilted toward Rumsfeld's position, which is obviously the same as Bush's. -- Seymour Hersh
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability. -- Ellen Tauscher
Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. -- John Perkins
USA Freedom Actdid, however, take away a valuable tool that allowed the National Security Agency and other law - and other intelligence agencies to quickly and rapidly access phone records and match them up with other phone records to see who terrorists have been calling. -- Marco Rubio
We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society. -- Edward Snowden
Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation. -- Arthur L. Herman
The real secrets start leaking out when there are too many secrets because people can't remember what's a real secret. There's a very famous line by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy: "If you guard your toothbrushes and your diamonds with equal zeal, you'll lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds." And that's where we are right now. -- Ted Gup
As the Democrats get revved up at their convention in Boston, President Bush is fighting back the only way he knows how: by going on vacation! Ah, it's nice to take a rest, replenish your supply of smirks. The vacation was expected, because Bush traditionally takes a month off every summer to relax and avoid reading National Security Warnings. -- Craig Kilborn
I would say national security is work in progress. -- Jeb Bush
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security. -- Heather Brooke
How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security. -- Jim Fowler
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it. -- George McGovern
Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. -- Eric Holder
I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. -- Jim Garrison
Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason. -- Glenn Greenwald
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. -- William Proxmire
It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence. -- Franklin Pierce
President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship. -- William J. Clinton
Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be. -- Gordon R. Sullivan
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country. -- Barack Obama
National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account. -- Al Franken
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
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. -- Jon Meacham
Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck. -- Bob Goodlatte
First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts. -- Bobby Jindal
AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq. -- Jared Diamond
Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue. -- Jesse Jackson
We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain: America will not have national security without economic security. -- John F. Kerry
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. -- George McGovern
I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy. -- Allen West
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nations economic viability. -- Jim Clyburn
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public. -- Rachel Maddow
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
That's not how national security works... I don't care what the Supreme Court said 30 years ago or what some judge said 15 minutes ago. This is America, and our government is collecting way too damn much data on we the private citizens! -- Mark Levin
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
The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom, appropriate national security and the fundamental moral values that have made our nation the greatest nation in the history of mankind. -- Tom Price
I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security. -- David Cameron
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
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury-national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture-we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands. -- Rand Paul
The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?' -- Bill Maher
Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes: cut the money and change the strategy. That would be acting in the name of a conception of national security that was truly strategic. -- William Hartung
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions - those institutions we proudly called the American way of life. -- Douglas MacArthur
I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States. -- John Bolton
I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms. -- Ban Ki-moon
You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest... -- Barack Obama
There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do. -- Oliver North
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' -- Mitch Daniels
But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' -- Mitch Daniels
Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest. -- Garry Wills
Immigration security is national security. -- Kellyanne Conway
We need a new approach to national security -- John F. Kerry
Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake. -- Fred Thompson
Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama -- John Bolton
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National security is vital for economic and social progress. -- Paul Kagame
National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information. -- Ralph Nader
...the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security. -- Jeff Miller
Iran's nuclearization is the greatest single national security threat America faces. -- Mitt Romney
Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security. -- Joe Biden
Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security. -- Jeff Miller
The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security. -- Leon Panetta
Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security. -- Mark Hatfield
My major focus is national security because that's really what the president runs. -- Rudy Giuliani
A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue. -- Doug Ose
I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn. -- Wesley Clark
We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security. -- John Glenn
Israel has its own right as a nation to defend its national security. -- Al Gore
In the United States national security interests to have a working relationship with Russia. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel
We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms. -- Sarah Palin
The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides. -- Bill Delahunt
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United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes. -- Rush Limbaugh
John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security. -- Zell Miller
Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security. -- Barack Obama
Besides commercial benefits to the oil companies, equity oil abroad also provides national energy security. -- Dinsha Patel
The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security. -- Mike Honda
For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security. -- George McGovern
Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it. -- Jose Andres Puerta
WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States. -- Peter T. King
WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States. -- Peter T. King
I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd. -- Rachel Maddow
The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues. -- J. D. Hayworth
We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security. -- William Sloane Coffin
I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters. -- David Brooks
We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security. -- Lawrence Korb
China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity, -- Li Zhaoxing
The development of the Internet has posed new challenges to national sovereignty, security and development interests. -- Xi Jinping
I think 9/11 guaranteed that national security is going to be in the forefront of every election. -- George H. W. Bush
The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history. -- Sue Kelly
You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services. -- Gijs de Vries
it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress. -- Condoleezza Rice
Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat -- John Warren Kindt
I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair. -- Bob Graham
I think General [Mike] Flynn is probably the top contender for that job [of national security adviser]. -- George Stephanopoulos

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