If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.
I have never been afraid to tackle tough or controversial issues, but I have always done it with the intent to do what I was elected to do, and that is represent the interests of my constituents, the working people of Hawaii. I feel that we are facing some of the most difficult issues in recent history with regard to food security, a widening income gap, and the rapidly increasing rise of the cost of living in our State. I know that the office of Lieutenant Governor can do more to address these issues.
I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered a high mark in their profession. Well, of course, I know you cannot invest in securities successfully with odds like that against you if you place dependence solely upon judgement as to the right securities to own and the right time or price to buy them. Then, too, I read somewhere about the man who described an economist as resembling ‘a professor of anatomy who was still a virgin.’
Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.
If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.
The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is legitimate personal and intellectual communication, and what is not.
The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.
To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare, people die.
I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.
Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.
But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.
Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.
When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.
The truth is that our only safety, our only security, our only hope is to hold fast to that which is good. As the mists of darkness gather around us, we are only lost if we choose to let go of the iron rod, which is the word of God.
In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.
This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.
Together, we'll build a far better future for America -- a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good.
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