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Vernon L. Smith

"I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13."

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Donna Grant

"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."

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Donna Grant

"Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem."

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Donna Grant

"But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction."

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Donna Grant

"I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13."

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Donna Grant

"The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight."

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Donna Grant

"I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman."

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Donna Grant

"Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated."

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Donna Grant

"Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double."

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Donna Grant

"Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042."

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Donna Grant

"The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that America is too feeble and corrupt to fight. A lot is involved in disproving that delusion on their part."

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Vernon L. Smith
"After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte."

Character

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Vernon L. Smith
"I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13."

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Vernon L. Smith
"Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness."

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Vernon L. Smith
"After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics."

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Vernon L. Smith
"In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school."

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Vernon L. Smith
"In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders."

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Vernon L. Smith
"I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics."

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Vernon L. Smith
"I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove."

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