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.

All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.

The academy has been dealing with the issue of scientific openness versus national security since 9/11,

The Bush campaign was all about national security. [Campaign members] implied ... that a vote for Kerry would put you in danger.

We regularly hold terrorists and spies accountable in court while safeguarding both national security and due process. We are confident in the system of justice to try these cases under the procedures adopted by Congress and regularly upheld by the courts.

This, post 9/11, is a situation that we can't explain or can't afford from a national security standpoint,