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"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."
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"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."
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"Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem."
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"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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"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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"I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman."
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"Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated."
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"Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double."
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"Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042."
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"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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"Most people want security in this world, not liberty."
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"'s one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling."
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"But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny."
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"And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book."
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"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."
Security
"I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself."
Experience
"I hate that word dysfunction."
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"I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers."
Life
"When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way."
Family
"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."
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"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."
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