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"The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible."
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"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."

"Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world."

"Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one can get me here. No one even knows I'm here. I won't get any nasty letters and I won't get any nasty phone calls and I won't get any nasty visitors. It's like a sanctuary. I feel as if I'm fifteen again, with nothing to worry about but my Homework. (And I haven't even got any of that.)"

"Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market."

"If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!"

"Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack."

"First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential."

"The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated."

"Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042."
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"We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda."


"No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side."


"We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that."


"We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango."


"In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state."


"In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone."


"Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map."


"We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another."
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