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

"Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact."

"Your shield must surpass your weaponry."

"Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse."

"While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security."

"Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken."
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"There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it."

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."
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