Security Quotes - Page 39

• Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is essential to a future of peace and security at home and abroad.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Home, People

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• The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

  Jeff Sessions

  Libertarian, Constitution, Protect

  Said in a derogatory tone on the floor of the U.S. Senate, December 17, 2007.

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• Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.

  James G. Stavridis

  Men, Periods, Force

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• The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.

  Ted Haggard

  Mean, Ideas, Sin

  Ted Haggard (2002). “Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Government, Police, Maintenance

  Jean Baptiste Say (1821). “A treatise on political economy; or, The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. Tr. by C.R. Prinsep, with notes”, p.257

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• A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully applied to the purpose for which it was destined.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Political, Doe, Purpose

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.487

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• All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.

  Walter E. Williams

  Money, Watches, Irs

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• In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

  Dana Gioia

  America, Poet, Social

  "James Tate and American Surrealism". Denver Quarterly, Fall 1998.

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• Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council. But if that were to happen Iran is not afraid.

  Hamid-Reza Assefi

  Iran, Answers, Currents

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• Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living.

  Daniel Drezner

  Zombie, Defense, Rising

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• They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.

  Robert Reischauer

  Fighting, Two, Want

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• We are taking additional measures to ensure security and stability in Tal Afar and to restore its people's rights

  Ibrahim al-Jaafari

  Rights, People, Afar

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• You have given us something more than money, you have given us a lot of your sons, your children that were killed beside our own children in Iraq. Iraqi people are insistent on going along the path for their economy and their security, but we do need the help of other countries who will help us, to stand beside us.

  Ibrahim al-Jaafari

  Country, Children, Son

  "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. June 24, 2005.

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• Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant. And it exposes more coalition forces to attacks.

  George W. Casey, Jr.

  Self, Occupation, Force

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• We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. ... I'd like you to come and live in the inner city for a week and see the importance of having a weapon. ... Go after the criminals and not the good people.

  Jesse Lee Peterson

  Running, Cities, People

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• I was fortunate to sell at a time of great sea change in the romance genre; suddenly heroines were allowed to be portrayed as having rich, fulfilling lives. They didn't need a man for security or self-esteem, but having that one very special man in their lives proved the icing on the cake.

  JoAnn Ross

  Self Esteem, Men, Sea

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• Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.

  William Poundstone

  Years, Salary, Cash

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.132, Macmillan

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• The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.

  Ian Bremmer

  Curves, Risk, Transition

  "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall". Book by Ian Bremmer, 2006.

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• To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Progress, Liberty, Development

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• The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.

  Howard Dean

  Party, America, Political

  "Bush ordered leaking of Iraq secrets, ex-aide tells court" by Francis Harris, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 4, 2006.

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• Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage (including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.

  Andrew Tobias

  May, Matter, Firsts

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

  Linus Torvalds

  Done, Development, Way

  "Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. May 14, 2007.

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• Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

  Linus Torvalds

  Black And White, Thinking, People

  "Torvalds Attacks It Industry 'Security Circus'". www.cnet.com. July 18, 2008.

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• Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet - in the wrong universe.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Heart, Mean, Suffering

  "On the Roof of the World". "Liberty Bell" Magazine, December 1987.

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• It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Strong, Memorable, Sacrifice

  "Jewish US Lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords Shot, Prognosis Optimistic". www.israelnationalnews.com. January 08, 2011.

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