Security Quotes - Page 38

• Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.

  Cornel West

  Loneliness, Heart, Sadness

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• President's personal staff has a unique role. They're his intimate personal advisers, and the tradition and the precedent has been, even when I was national security adviser, that people in that position do not testify before the Congress. They talk to the Congress. They have meetings with the Congress.

  Colin Powell

  Unique, People, President

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

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• How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

  Alice Cooper

  Security Guards, Sixteen, Seventeen

  "Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper". 1974.

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• We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the government ignoring such warnings.

  George Galloway

  Country, Government, Iraq

  "Galloway: Bombings price of Iraq". news.bbc.co.uk. July 8, 2005.

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• I know there are some people in Germany who become sick when they see these black uniforms, we understand the reason for this, and do not expect we shall be loved by all that number of people; those who come to fear us in any way or at any time must have a bad conscience towards the Fuhrer and the nation. For these persons we have established an organisation called the Security Service.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Numbers, People, Sick

  "The Security Squadron as an Anti-Bolshevik Battle Organisation". Treatise by Heinrich Himmler, 1936.

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• In the brief monthly reports of the Security Police, I only want figures on how many Jews have been shipped off and how many are currently left.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Police, Want, Figures

  "Hitler and the Final Solution". Book by Gerald Fleming, p. 137, 1987.

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• The world is now unipolar and contains o­nly o­ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.

  Stephen Harper

  Exercise, Unique, Political

  "The New North Strong and Free". Canadian Alliance Defence Policy Paper, May 5, 2003.

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• The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

  Aga Khan IV

  Struggle, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Cosmopolitan Society, Human Safety and Rights in Plural and Peaceful Societies". Remarks by His Highness the Aga Khan at Evora University Symposium, iis.ac.uk. February 12, 2006.

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• Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists.

  Ali Khamenei

  Vanity, Hands, America

  "The 25 Issues that Shape American Politics: Debates, Differences, and Divisions". Book by Michael Kryzanek and Ann K. Karreth, 2017.

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• For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.

  Paul Krugman

  Cutting, Gay, America

  "Severe Conservative Syndrome". www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2012.

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• As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed.

  John McCain

  Believe, President, Lines

  "John McCain Thinks Social Security Is A 'Disgrace'" by Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2008.

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• Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.

  Preston Manning

  Religious, Home, Commitment

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.

  David Petraeus

  Political, Progress, Sufficient

  "Crocker, Petraeus Testify Before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Iraq". David Petraeus' remarks at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing hosted by Carl Levin, media.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.

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• Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?

  John Prescott

  Silly, Hair, Wife

  "Prescott walks it like he talks it". news.bbc.co.uk. September 30, 1999.

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• For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the right to criticize and to influence opinion. It embraces the right to health and work, to education and social security.

  Olof Palme

  Views, Political, Democracy

  "Eurosocialism and America: political economy for the 1980s". Book edited by Nancy I. Lieber, ‎Institute for Democratic Socialism, p. 222, 1982.

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• Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

  Samantha Power

  Summer, War, Israel

  Interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, March 14, 2007.

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• Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries, we have reduced production taxes, leaving money in the economy. We have optimised state spending.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Jobs, Honesty

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

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• I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better, and they are getting better and they are holding territory and they are doing these things with minimal help, that we are going to be able to bring down the levels of our forces. And I have no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Doubt, Get Better, Levels

  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing On U.S Foreign Policy in Iraq, October 19, 2005.

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• it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Principles, Sitting, Congress

  "Rice Leads Counterattack". "60 minutes", www.cbsnews.com. March 28, 2004.

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• Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.

  Paul Ryan

  Military, War, America

  "Ryan Statement on Death of Terrorist al-Zarqawi". paulryan.house.gov. June 08, 2006.

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• That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fate, Dark, Office

  "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.

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• I opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still don't. What we [America] did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism - and by doing what we did in Iraq, we've managed to alienate a good part of the world and most of the allies whose intelligence and other help we need to combat and defeat terrorism.

  Jerry Springer

  Baseball, War, Believe

  "Democratic Veteran". Interview with Jo Fish, June 23, 2003.

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• The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Real, Class, Design

  "The awful thing about getting it right the first time is that nobody realizes how hard it was". www.jwz.org. April 27, 2014.

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• Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?

  Slavoj Žižek

  Jobs, Becoming, Privilege

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• Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Wind, Independence

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