Security Quotes - Page 6

• Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

  Jim Leach

  Drawing, President, Reform

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• Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

  John Goodman

  Children, Years, Reform

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• I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.

  Chris Chocola

  Believe, Idaho, Security Systems

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• We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.

  Li Peng

  Views, Engagement, Terrorism

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• Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

  Paul Cellucci

  Play, Roles, Canada

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• In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

  Boris Pasternak

  Change, War, Learning

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• If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

  Gwen Ifill

  Country, Moving, People

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• When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

  Thomas Brooks

  Mother, Safety, Temptation

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.233

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• He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Cutting, Teeth, Lions

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Insecure, Land, Tyrants

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• When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

  Russell Conwell

  Prayer, Men, Agency

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• Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

  Tony Snow

  Girl, Baby, Drawing

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• Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

  William Godwin

  Power, Men, Nations

  "Reflections on Political Justice: Selections from the Writings of William Godwin".

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• There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.

  Herbert York

  Science, Achievement, Sound

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Wisdom, Heart, Mean

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• He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Smart, Men

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• Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

  Kofi Annan

  Wall, Rights, World

  "Kofi Annan and U.N. Accept 2001 Nobel Peace Prize", www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2001.

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• That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

  Edmund Burke

  People, Liberty, Spirit

  Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.338, Cambridge University Press

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• One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Excellence, Wells

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• I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Responsibility, Race, Arms

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• When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Military, War, Government

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• Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Progress, Maintenance, Made

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• It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

  Danny Glover

  Health, Color, Issues

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage .... One of the most remarkable features of this damage has been the readiness of governments to harm the very people that they claimed they were protecting by building these weapons for national security reasons. In general, this harm was inflicted on people in disregard of democratic norms. Secrecy, fabrication of data, cover-ups in the face of attempted public inquiry, and even human experiments without informed consent have all occurred in nuclear weapons production and testing programs.

  Arjun Makhijani

  Government, Data, People

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• Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Technology, Innovation, Competition

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