Top 325 National Security Quotes

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.
Jim Mattis
Hillary Clinton exposed our nation’s most sensitive national security secrets to foreign adversaries.
Tom Cotton
There’s nothing partisan about following the law and protecting our national security.
Conor Lamb
Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president’s highest duty is to protect the security of this country – our national security.
Wesley Clark
National security, both internal and external, is a challenge.
Sushma Swaraj
If we’re going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.
Ted Cruz
I think in national security, the war in Iraq is troubl

I think in national security, the war in Iraq is troublesome and a difficult challenge, but our troops and the military leaders we have are managing that situation, although it continues to be very risky and very dangerous.
Thad Cochran
Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.
John Garamendi
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
The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.
Ellen Tauscher
I will work hard to ensure Hawaii’s strategic position in our national security remains strong.
Mazie Hirono
Given my own experience in national security, I have seen while serving abroad just how important women’s economic empowerment is to national security.
Morgan Ortagus
In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
Jack Lew
The acquisition of Silverback 7 will expand our ability to support vital national security programs, and there’s not a better business-friendly environment to do that than right here in Central Florida.
Todd Wilcox
Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism, to build up the American military power to assure our national security against any conceivable threat.
Robert Dallek
We need to end our country’s counterproductive regime change war policies that have undermined our national security, destroyed so many countries, and taken so many lives. We must instead focus on investing in and rebuilding our communities right here at home.
Tulsi Gabbard
I’ve been pretty clear about saying that I think that the No. 1 threat to our national security is our debt. And we’ve got to get our arms around that and head it in another – head it in the right direction – that we have to pay our fair share of this.
Michael Mullen
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons – in some cases even the testing of these weapons – is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.
Joseph Rotblat
I would say national security is work in progress.
Jeb Bush
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
Andrew Young
Belonging to the Gang of Eight carries massive responsibility in representing all 435 members of the legislature in very sensitive national security exercises.
Pete Hoekstra