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"Your shield must surpass your weaponry."
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"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."
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"We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals."
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"Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can't be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that's never been created is God."
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"But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security."
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"Most people want security in this world, not liberty."
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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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"Stop seeking security. There is none."
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"Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day, every day, sleeping its life away."
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"Weaponry is a fear-raising idea."
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"It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake."
Love

"There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it."
Politics

"Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd."
Being

"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
Home

"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."
History

"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."
Leadership

"We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment."
Leadership

"Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus."
Nothing

"It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."
Friendship

"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."
Argument
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