“I've been going around the world; I've been to China, I sang at the General Assembly, the Security Council.” WorldSecurityChinaAround The WorldCouncilAssemblySecurity CouncilGeneral Assembly Author:Robert Davi
“We have to make sure whenever you are dealing with big things like global warming, world security, refugees, the E.U. question, access to information, it needs to be done with an awareness that all of these things interconnect.” WorldNeedsDoneBigsAwarenessSecurityInformationAccessGlobal WarmingRefugeeBig ThingsAccess To Information Author:Birgitta Jonsdottir
“Astrophysicists perfected navigation. We perfected all these things that matter to the power of nations manifest on the world stage. So we want to go into space. That's the new high ground, right? We care about multispectral imaging of things. Well, that's what reconnaissance wants to do. So our expertise has been in bed with national security needs forever. So maybe, secretly, that's why they keep us employed.” WorldWantNeedsWellsHas BeensMatterCareNationsSpaceForeverStageSecurityBedManifestNational SecurityEmployedExpertiseThings That MatterNavigationImagingHigh Ground Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“We are willing to uphold principles that have resulted in unprecedented prosperity and security throughout Europe and around the world. With the threat of climate change only becoming more urgent, Angela [Merkel] and I focused on the need for American and E.U. leadership to advance global cooperation.” WorldNeedsPrinciplesSecurityWillingBecomingEuropeThreatClimateClimate ChangeProsperityFocusedAround The WorldCooperationUrgentUnprecedentedBecoming MoreAngela Author:Barack Obama
“I do believe that Chancellor Merkel and Germany are a lynchpin in protecting the basic tenets of a liberal, market-based democratic order that has created unprecedented prosperity and security for Europe, but also for the world.” WorldBelieveOrderSecurityEuropeDemocraticProsperityGermanyUnprecedented Author:Barack Obama
“The other thing that really I regretted not being able to do was to push effectively for the reform of the Security Council. Because the world was changing, and is changing very fast, and I felt the UN was holding on to old arrangements. Most governments felt that it has such a narrow power base, based on the results of the second world war.” WorldWarGovernmentAbleFeltResultsSecurityReformWar Of The WorldsArrangementsCouncilHolding OnSecond World WarSecurity Council Author:Kofi Annan
“How can you have a world of today where India is not represented in the Security Council; Japan, the second contributor, is not there; the whole continent of Africa, soon to be 54 countries, don't have a single permanent seat; and Latin America is absent? It's not realistic.” WorldCountryWholeTodayAmericaSecurityIndiaPermanentSeatsJapanLatinRealisticContinentsCouncilAbsentLatin AmericaContributorsSecurity Council Author:Kofi Annan
“There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was born in the peasant family had his room at the table and his job in the field, stable or pigsty... If there was not enough food, everybody got less. If food was plentiful, everybody ate better. In such a setting, we may say, the problem of security couldn't even arise... One was born with life-long rights; the only thing that one could not do was to change them. A setting good on the side of security, though bad on the side of freedom.” IfsWorldMayChildrenLongWarEnoughProblemJobsSidesBornRoomsRightsSecurityFieldsTablesAriseSettingSettingsWar Of The WorldsStableLong LifePolishPeasantsUnemployedCountrysideSecond World WarPlentiful Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're president of the United States. Everybody around the world's paying attention. Markets move. National security issues require a level of precision in order to make sure that you don't make mistakes.” WorldDoeStatesMovingOrderPresidentLevelsUnitedAttentionMistakeUnited StatesIssuesSecurityImpactAround The WorldPay AttentionCandidatesMaking MistakesNational SecurityControversialPrecision Author:Barack Obama
“If the dollar weakens, then presumably all the things that we make in the United States - Buicks, for instance - can be sold cheap all over the world, and everyone will be buying our goods, and we'll get all sorts of yen-denominated, or yuan-denominated, or euro-denominated securities, and then everybody else will be worried.” IfsWorldStatesUnitedUnited StatesSecurityDollarsInstanceWorriedBuyingGoodsEuro Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.” WorldArtistSecurityComfortPhotographerRelative Author:Ansel Adams
“I think that special relationship between the UK and the US has been an important part of security across the world particularly to the West.” ThinkingWorldHas BeensImportantSpecialSecurityWestSpecial Relationship Author:Theresa May
“[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.” WorldLongInterestMiddleSecurityEssentialsAreasRootsAffairTerrorismOilEastIslamicMiddle EastInvolvementArab WorldDialectics Author:Edward Said
“What you have in President Trump is someone who is willing to, and is, in fact, engaging the world, including Russia, and saying, where can we find common interests that will advance the security of the American people, the peace and prosperity of the world? And he is determined to come at that in a new and renewed way.” PeopleWorldWayFactsPresidentInterestCommonSecurityWillingTrumpIncludingProsperityDeterminedRussiaEngagingCommon Interests Author:Mike Pence
“What Donald Trump is determined to do, as someone who has spent a lifetime looking for deals, is to see if we can have a new relationship with Russia and other countries that advances the interests of America first and the peace and security of the world.” IfsWorldFirstsCountryAmericaInterestDealsSecurityTrumpLifetimeDeterminedRussiaOther CountriesNew RelationshipPeace And Security Author:Mike Pence
“I'm not talking about him; I'm talking about the countries that go to support [Antonio] Guterres plan, because he needs the support of other countries, he cannot achieve that plan while many countries in the world are still supporting the terrorists in Syria. So, of course we support it, whether helping the people to live, to go back to their country, and to live in security without terrorists.” PeopleWorldNeedsStillsCountryHelpingCoursesTalkingSupportPlansAchieveSecurityTerroristOther CountriesSyriaNot TalkingAntonio Author:Bashar al-Assad
“A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.” WorldAmericaRaceSecurityArmsThreatIsraelNuclearRegionsIranNational SecurityArms RaceNuclear ArmsNuclear Arms RaceNuclear Iran Author:Barack Obama
“The greatest threat that the world faces, the greatest national security threat is a nuclear Iran.” WorldFacesSecurityThreatNuclearIranNational SecurityNuclear Iran Author:Mitt Romney
“I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWarRealMightInterestResponsibilityTakenWrittenConditionsSecurityCrimeBearsCourtThreatInternationalCriminalsEnormousCommandChainsReal WorldRomeInvestigationDiscretionProsecutorStatutesWar CrimesChain Of Command Author:John Bolton
“Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.” WorldSecurityBasesContinental Author:Alan Bersin
“We provide an enormous amount of resources, particularly with regard to military resources, to countries all over the world. And in many cases, those countries are not compensating the American taxpayer for the commitment that we're making to their security.” WorldCountryCasesSecurityMilitaryAmountCommitmentResourcesRegardEnormousTaxpayers Author:Mike Pence
“America's security and prosperity didn't work unless other nations were also secure, and prosperous. There had to be something in it for them, so we weren't looking simply to grab territory, or widen our sphere of influence, or anything like that. We wanted to make the world a better place, and get very rich in the process.” WorldWantedAmericaNationsProcessRichInfluenceSecurityProsperitySecureTerritorySpheresBetter PlaceProsperousSphere Of Influence Author:Daniel Fried
“Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.” IfsWorldWayHumansKindStillsSocialHuman BeingsOur LivesEconomicEffectsSecurityDevelopmentJudgmentMajorsImpactGenderPrioritiesAll KindsTransformedEquityEconomic Development Author:Amartya Sen
“China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering around the edge, South Korea is involved, and Iran is an associate member of some kind. If the Middle East oil resources around the Gulf, which are the main ones in the world, if they link up to the Asian grid, the United States is really a second-rate power. A lot is at stake in not withdrawing from Iraq.” IfsWorldKindStatesEnergyUnitedUnited StatesMiddleSecurityInvolvedMembersResourcesIndiaSouthRateIraqEdgesChinaOilEastRussiaIranLinksStakesMiddle EastAssociatesAsianKoreaGridsSecond RateHoveringSouth KoreaWithdrawingEnergy Security Author:Noam Chomsky
“Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of the US Treasury Department. US Treasury securities are what's called "good as gold"; they're the basis of international finance, and if the government can't uphold them, if they become valueless, the effect on the international financial system could be quite severe. But in order to destroy a limited health-care law, the right-wing Republicans, the reactionary Republicans, are willing to do that.” IfsWorldWayGovernmentCareLawOrderEffectsSecurityWillingDependsRepublicanGoldBasesWingsFinancialInternationalFinanceHealth CareDepartmentSevereCredibilityRight WingTreasuryReactionariesFinancial SystemValuelessUs Treasury Author:Noam Chomsky
“Basically my point of view on unicorns is that private companies which have sky high valuations, it doesn't really mean anything in the real world until it's marked to market. And there's only two ways things get marked to market in venture capital: Either a company is acquired by another company for cash or marketable security, or it goes public, and then it has reporting requirements and then the market will determine the value.” WorldWayMeanTwoRealValuesViewsCompanySkySecurityDeterminePoint Of ViewReal WorldCashVentureRequirementsReally MeanTwo WaysUnicornValuationVenture CapitalSky High Author:Kevin Kinsella
“Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood, to the security of employment at working age, to the challenge of accumulating for retirement. More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line, and that will be a very different world than the one we would have lived in only a couple of decades ago.” WorldDifferentAgeFacesChallengesLinesOur LivesRiskChildhoodSecurityCoupleFinancialDecadesEmploymentUncertaintyRetirementStabilityIntroducingElusiveDifferent WorldsInstabilityMacroeconomics Author:Alan M. Taylor
“The Security Council should be seen as the executive committee of the global security system set up after World War II. Its members, and especially the Permanent 5 (P5), have a special responsibility for international peace and security.” WorldShouldWarResponsibilitySpecialSecurityMembersInternationalPermanentWar Of The WorldsExecutivesWorld War IiWorld War ICommitteesCouncilInternational PeaceSecurity CouncilPeace And SecuritySecurity Systems Author:Kofi Annan