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"Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security."

"Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint."

"Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states."

"The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

"Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads."

"So the I.F. is spying on Earth.""Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard.""Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy."

"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."

"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion."
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"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"

"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history."

"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."

"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
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