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"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't."
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"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."
"If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts."
"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."
"Ideally the world would look like Davos, where there's more security than we can even see on the street."
"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."
"What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?"
"No one from the beginning of time has had security."
"I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare."
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"In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary."
"Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another."
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