Strategic Assets Quotes

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has.

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.

Even if Pfizer committed itself legally to maintaining some of its research and development in the U.K., its takeover of AstraZeneca would involve dismembering an excellent and strategically important British company.

Bargaining chips that you never get to spend are not worth anything

The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.

There are certain areas which ISIS has the oil and you take the oil, you keep it. You just go in and take it.

We have developed this capability. The heavy-water project today is a reality. This knowledge belongs to Iran. Nobody can take it from us. As they (Europeans) see Iran's determination, they will be forced to show flexibility and accept it.

Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government.

Trudeau claims he's wary about Chinese espionage, but also says there's nothing wrong with Chinese state-owned enterprises buying up as much of Canada's resource sector as it likes.

Investment by any foreign company in any element of the U.K.'s Critical National Infrastructure should receive careful scrutiny.

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Some have become more critical than others; for example, the submarines. And that's the Ohio Class submarine that needs to be modernized. The air component also needs to be modernized. The B-52, as someone earlier pointed out, is an outdated model that was flown by the grandparents of people that are flying it now. And we need a serious modernization program as well on our silo-launched missiles. All three are critical for the defense of the country.