Rodney Frelinghuysen Quotes

We're an organization with a clear objective: to protect the American people. We have a number of missions that feed into that, to protect America, and one of those missions we share with the council, which is to help our policymakers make sense of global events.

President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

I would say national security is work in progress.

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Looking back over my more than a half century in intelligence, I have not experienced a time when we've been beset by more crises and threats around the globe.

During my time as CIA Director and Secretary of Defense, Hillary was a strong supporter of our efforts to protect our homeland, decimate al-Qaeda, and bring Osama bin Laden to justice.

One of our pillars has to be national security - our nation's security both domestically and abroad.

National security, both internal and external, is a challenge.

I'm honored to sit on the House Intelligence Committee and am proud to chair the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.

As a national security aid, I worked with our military to strengthen our national defense.

National security is not just things that go boom. It is not just terrorists and foreign adversaries.

There's so many things, when you're in national security, that you do that aren't perfect, but you do them because you think you're doing what the country needs to be safe.

No one wants to friend or follow covert info about Pakistan's nuclear policy.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.

Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

After the horrific attacks of September 11th, it was evident that our Government needed to be transformed to meet the new challenges of this dangerous world.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.