“But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.” WayWantTogetherSecurityConcernedSafetyBest WayPrivacyWorking TogetherPartnershipWay Forward Author:John S. Pistole
“Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.” NationsCitiesSecurityPossibilityBrokenIntegrityConcernedTerroristBordersCrossings Author:Chris Cannon
“The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.” NaturalWealthInterestingVirtueSecurityCircumstancesWeaknessConcernedPropertyPossessionValuableOur FamilyDistinctionBelongingBenevolenceAvariceAncestryTransmissionHereditarySubservientPerpetuating Book:Reflections on the French Revolution Source: Reflections on the French Revolution
“Arizona Senator John McCain announced that he plans on running for a sixth term because he is concerned about the nation's security. He plans to help just like any other 80-year-old: by sitting on his porch with a police scanner.” YearsHelpingRunningNationsTermPlansSecuritySittingConcernedPoliceSenatorsArizonaMccainPorch Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security, just so they have a better chance of keeping an eye on us.” WarEyeChanceSecurityConcernedPrioritiesImprovingNsaWeakening Author:Edward Snowden
“Secretary [Hillary ] Clinton is absolutely right, there are people, Koch brothers among others, who have a group called Concerned Veterans of America, funded by the Koch brothers. The Koch brothers, by the way, want to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, every governmental program passed since the 1930s. Yes, there are people out there who want to privatize it.” PeopleWayWantAmericaSocialGroupsSecurityBrotherConcernedProgramClintonSecretaryVeteranSocial SecurityMedicare1930sMedicaid Author:Bernie Sanders
“We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for example, "national security." Everyone says "national security" to the point that we now must use the term "national security." But it is not national security that they're concerned with; it is state security. And that's a key distinction.” StatesUseGovernmentCertainTermSecurityMediaExampleEmotionalKeysConcernedResponsePhrasesDistinctionProvokingNational SecurityEmotional Response Author:Edward Snowden
“Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.” WayGovernmentCasesClearSecurityConcernedDamageNational Security Author:Edward Snowden
“Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights, voting rights, abuses by police and the military, and the subordination of politics to religion - issues like the campaign to expand human freedom by turning highways over to toll-extracting private corporations and the crusade to funnel money from Social Security to Wall Street brokerage firms.” HumansHas BeensImportantFoundLeftSocialIssuesRightsStreetsSecurityMilitaryWallConcernedAbusePoliceWingsLibertarianCampaignsCivil RightsFirmCorporationsVotingActivistSocial SecurityHighwaysRight WingBrethrenTollsRight To VoteCrusadesHuman FreedomSubordination Author:Michael Lind
“President Trump and his administration are right to be concerned about national security, but it's unacceptable when even legal permanent residents are being detained or turned away at airports and ports of entry.” PresidentSecurityTrumpConcernedAdministrationPermanentNational SecurityAirportsPortEntryResidents Author:Jeff Flake
“I've spent a lot of time working on declassified documents - and they do get declassified after decades - you look at the record of declassified documents, and they are mostly concerned with keeping what the government does secret from its own population. It's mostly defense of the power system from its own population. Very little is authentic security.” LooksLittlesDoeGovernmentSecretRecordsSecurityConcernedPopulationDefenseDecadesDocuments Author:Noam Chomsky