Bill Richardson Security Quotations

We want to make sure there are additional security measures and resources to contain the flow of information through e-mail, fax, cyber and other forms of technological communication,

We may have here a security lapse that involved an individual that misplaced something and tried to engage in contradictory behavior, and, hopefully, we'll get to the bottom of this,

I will not tolerate security lapses and I'm outraged at what happened,

Our critical security systems are operational. All our Energy Department nuclear materials are secure, ... Some of the high explosives are kept in concrete bunkers surrounded by earth and we don't see any problem.

We propose making direct investments in areas that immediately create thousands of jobs, while addressing our long-term needs -- such as constructing new schools and making security upgrades to highways and airports, ... This government spending on infrastructure will create immediate jobs while dealing with our nation's responsibilities in areas like education, homeland security and transportation safety.

We're very pleased with this result. It shows unity in the contact group, unity in the Security Council and it brings the United States and Russia together on this issue.

We've instituted more extensive security reviews, including polygraph tests; expanded financial disclosure programs; and forensic financial investigations for employees working in sensitive programs,

We cannot have a full economic recovery, we cannot ensure the security of this country, while the states are in the midst of the worst fiscal crisis in half a century. Direct aid to cash-strapped states is perhaps the most direct way to immediately jump-start an ailing economy.

Every dollar governors are forced to cut out of our budgets is a dollar that's not going into the economy. . . . Every job that must be cut is another statistic in already escalating unemployment figures. . . . Every person who loses the support and services on which they rely for their livelihood and security leaves us poorer as a people and as a nation.

Based on news stories last year, some people may think that the department is solely a national security agency, ... But the fact is that the Department of Energy is at its heart a science agency. Forty percent, or $7.6 billion, of the fiscal year 2001 budget request is for research and development .... We are by far the nation's largest government agency in the physical sciences and in building and operating research facilities.

As soon as possible, what I want to hire is, hopefully, a four-star general with an extensive security background,

The United States is supportive of his trip, ... We wish him well, but we deserve the right to disagree if the conclusion of the trip is not consistent with Security Council resolutions and our own national interests.

The Security Council is going to have to respond in a strong, unmistakable way,

The stability of Asia, the future of Japan and the security of America will be determined by our ability to convince the North Koreans once and for all to dismantle their nuclear program, ... That is the goal of the six-party talks which I support and that is the message I will be carrying.

Sanctions on Iraq are not going to be lifted while Iraq continues to violate Security Council,

So what we want to do is send a message that the Democrats and Sen. Kerry are positive -- that we're going to talk about what we're going to do on the economy, on health care, on foreign policy, on national security and not make this into a big bashing of the president,

This is not an attack against the United States. This is an Iraqi attack against the United Nations and the Security Council.

The United States reserves the right to oppose any arrangement that does not protect Security Council resolutions and what we perceive to be America's national interest,

This is typically Iraqi behavior. Once again they are repudiating the Security Council resolutions. They are repudiating the agreement they made with the secretary-general, they are blustering, they are going out of their way to be defiant and they are playing games.

It's the major powers of the United Nations Security Council speaking united, unmistakably, with a strong message that what is happening in South Asia is unacceptable, it's a threat to peace and security, and that it's critically important that tempers and tensions be reduced,

They are very strong on science. They are a great institution. But on security ... they haven't done a very good job,

I want to send a message to all lab employees, every single one of them, that security is important, that I want your attention, that I want you to permanently give your attention to security so we don't have leaks anymore,

I believe that at our weapons labs right now, we have strong security procedures. We want to work with this committee on how we can improve that,