Security Quotes

We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel.

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front.

Only the insecure strive for security.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.

Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.

But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

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