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Security Quotes

On what keeps us secure, and what costs us that security.

This collection looks at security mostly through a technology lens - vulnerable communication channels, and cloud computing framed as a real but solvable security challenge. Related reading: Government.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

Quotes by Agnetha Faltskog

Football players value job security and stability as much anybody else.

Quotes by Adebayo Akinfenwa

Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

Quotes by Adam Conover

Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

Government Quotes

The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Quotes by Abdullah II of Jordan

I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

Quotes by Aaron Paul

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

Quotes by A. J. P. Taylor

I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all...

Quotes by Zbigniew Brzezinski

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

Quotes by Zell Miller

More Quotes

When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.

Quotes by Zayn Malik

In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.

Quotes by Zach Wamp

It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.

Quotes by Yoshihiko Noda

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

Quotes by Yitzhak Rabin

The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody...

Quotes by Yahya Jammeh

Must Quotes

Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

Quotes by Yair Lapid

I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security.

Quotes by Xavier Becerra

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

Quotes by William Weld

Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

Quotes by William Weld

Many regulators are quick to apply existing compliance practices that treat tokens as a security, therefore elevating the barriers and costs of implementation for entrepreneurs.

Quotes by William Mougayar

Need Quotes

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Quotes by William Congreve

Frequently Asked Questions

What angles on "security" do these quotes explore?
They cover communications and technology, the role of secrecy, the challenges of cloud computing, and the security that comes from a strong local economy.
Is there a quote about technology and communications security?
Yes — one quote observes that "The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels."
Is there a quote about secrecy in security matters?
There is. One line states, "It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable."
Is there a quote about cloud computing and security?
Yes — one quote acknowledges that "Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome." You can browse related ideas on our Must quotes page.
Is there a quote linking security to local economies?
Yes. One quote argues that "An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy." For more, see our Government, More, and Need quotes pages.

One quote argues secrecy itself is rarely truly needed for security, and another finds a different kind of security in a genuinely local economy. See also Must and Need.