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Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.

The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

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

The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.

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.

I think there are some instances where U.S. security is threatened by rogue regimes, by foreign dictators, and there are some instances where liberating nations helps to restore our security.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.