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Security Quotes
"Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands."
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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 no such thing as security. There never has been."
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"Without security it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful."
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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
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"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."
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"According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue."
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"There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air."
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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."
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"Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states."
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"A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that."
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"Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without."
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"This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa."
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"TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all."
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"Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security."
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"Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms."
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"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."
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"I'd like to fly. Then I wouldn't have to wait in airport security lines."
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"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back."
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"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."
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"In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security."
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"The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible."
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"If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!"
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"Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack."
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"I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security."
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"A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die."
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"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."
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"First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server."
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"Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated."
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"Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042."
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"I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies."
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"They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure."
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"Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract."
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"We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere."
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"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."
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"Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here."
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"Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets."
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"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."
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"Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests."
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"When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees."
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"I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare."
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"We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year."
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"Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double."
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"There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11."
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"As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops."
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