national security: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/national-security/ Everyone on the record about national security: 13 verbatim quotes from 6 people, December 2017 to June 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:07 +0000 Scott Bessent: Bessent frames quantum readiness as critical to American technological and economic leadership. https://minutesof.com/q/9fc9fde9-4dce-4973-8b0e-771caae28ff6/ https://minutesof.com/q/9fc9fde9-4dce-4973-8b0e-771caae28ff6/ ““America must lead in securing the technologies that power our economy,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent” — Scott Bessent, Treasury press and remarks national security Jensen Huang: Huang argues national security, technology leadership, and economic prosperity are not mutually https://minutesof.com/q/01de0953-f839-438b-bd23-96ce2f7346b6/ https://minutesof.com/q/01de0953-f839-438b-bd23-96ce2f7346b6/ “You could have national security, you have technology leadership, and you could have economic prosper ity all at the same time.” — Jensen Huang, Associated Press Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:50:13 +0000 national security Dylan Patel: Patel criticizes Dario Amodei's response to a hypothetical nuclear defense scenario as the dumbes https://minutesof.com/q/b5ca73ad-828e-451d-abbd-d5d5927720b3/ https://minutesof.com/q/b5ca73ad-828e-451d-abbd-d5d5927720b3/ “And Dario was like, well, you can call us. I'm sure we can figure something out. Like, this is just the dumbest response you could ever come up with.” — Dylan Patel, Matthew Berman Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:07:47 +0000 national security Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove argues state security is government's first responsibility, more important than https://minutesof.com/q/e3a12331-1d1b-497b-819e-905fa54021cd/ https://minutesof.com/q/e3a12331-1d1b-497b-819e-905fa54021cd/ “It's more important than National Health Service. I mean, you take a Ciceronean view of the state, the security of the state is the first responsibility of the government.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:12:11 +0000 national security Brad Gerstner: Gerstner compares AI buildout to Manhattan Project, calling it both national and economic secur https://minutesof.com/q/2a8fac41-0bb5-4155-9499-750763a34c14/ https://minutesof.com/q/2a8fac41-0bb5-4155-9499-750763a34c14/ “We are in a global AI race with China. This is like the Manhattan Project. We have to build out compute. It it's a it's not only a national security imperative.” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:51:39 +0000 national security Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove states China poses a serious threat to UK national security and acknowledges mu https://minutesof.com/q/d6dc8e0c-287f-4ff0-9d2e-eaee89bc0e23/ https://minutesof.com/q/d6dc8e0c-287f-4ff0-9d2e-eaee89bc0e23/ “Look, we all know there is a serious threat to The UK's national security from China.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Sky News Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:33:46 +0000 national security Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove says no Western company has had bigger positive impact on national security tha https://minutesof.com/q/a337cb6b-70cb-4da7-9cd5-9337c4661e8e/ https://minutesof.com/q/a337cb6b-70cb-4da7-9cd5-9337c4661e8e/ “I don't think there's a company that I can think of in the West that's had a bigger and more positive impact on national security, because, you know, what you've done is to sort of pull together the diversity and complexity of a modern democratic security structure” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:00:46 +0000 national security Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove says no Western company has had bigger positive impact on national security tha https://minutesof.com/q/3284e833-130c-462b-b132-f961469b939f/ https://minutesof.com/q/3284e833-130c-462b-b132-f961469b939f/ “I don't think there's a company that I can think of in the West that's had a bigger and more positive impact on national security, because, you know, what you've done” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:00:46 +0000 national security Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove asserts no Western company has had bigger positive impact on national security https://minutesof.com/q/efbefd2a-5fe3-466d-85be-9f85ddce7148/ https://minutesof.com/q/efbefd2a-5fe3-466d-85be-9f85ddce7148/ “I don't think there's a company that I can think of in the West that's had a bigger and more positive impact on national security because, you know, what you've done is pull together the diversity and complexity of a modern democratic security structure” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:54:40 +0000 national security Brad Gerstner: Gerstner warns low-cost power enables larger AI infrastructure, creating strategic risk if Chin https://minutesof.com/q/cd556f3c-4872-4253-8bb4-91036179bc61/ https://minutesof.com/q/cd556f3c-4872-4253-8bb4-91036179bc61/ “Because if you are the low cost power provider in the world, right, then you're going to be able to build bigger data centers that power bigger AI clusters, etcetera.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Mon, 09 Sep 2024 02:12:29 +0000 national security David Sacks: Sacks argues the US should not depend on China for antibiotics, medicines, or PPE critical to sur https://minutesof.com/q/f416bfb9-09c1-4837-a356-39fe7d021aac/ https://minutesof.com/q/f416bfb9-09c1-4837-a356-39fe7d021aac/ “It doesn't really make sense for us to be dependent on China for our antibiotics, for our medicines, for our PPE, for any of these products that are important for national survival.” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:17:29 +0000 national security Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove argues terrorism does not present a systemic threat to the nation despite horri https://minutesof.com/q/809d9720-b805-49cd-898d-01816adc6fd9/ https://minutesof.com/q/809d9720-b805-49cd-898d-01816adc6fd9/ “I don't think terrorism in its current form, you know, presents a systemic threat to the nation. It presents, the possibility of horrible happenings,” — Sir Richard Dearlove, BBC Politics Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:16:05 +0000 national security Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove argues terrorism does not present a systemic threat to the nation despite possi https://minutesof.com/q/f693713e-34c2-4704-9288-9a781497cea2/ https://minutesof.com/q/f693713e-34c2-4704-9288-9a781497cea2/ “I mean, I don't think terrorism in its current form, you know, presents a systemic threat to the nation. It presents, the possibility of horrible happenings,” — Sir Richard Dearlove, BBC Politics Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:16:05 +0000 national security