I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

The country that owns green that dominates that industry is going to have the most energy security national security economic security competitive companies healthy population and most of all global respect.

There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing not in demanding or expecting not in hoping even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was nor forward to what it might be but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people politics falls aside pretty quickly.

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy strengthen our security and strengthen our families.

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security.