National Emergency

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or emergency:

“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
—Larry Speakes (b. 1939)

“War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view “realistically”; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent—war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)