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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

    Author: A. J. P. Taylor
   

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

    Author: Aaliyah
   

I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

    Author: Aaron Brown
   

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

    Author: Abraham Maslow
   

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

    Author: Adam Smith
   

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

    Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
   

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

    Author: Adnan Pachachi
   

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

    Author: Agnetha Faltskog
   

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

    Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
   

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

    Author: Akhmad Kadyrov
   

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

    Author: Al Gore
   

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.

    Author: Al Michaels
   

Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.

    Author: Al Roker
   

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

    Author: Alan Autry
   

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

    Author: Alan Cohen
   

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

    Author: Albert Einstein
   

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

    Author: Aldrich Ames
   

And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.

    Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski
   

However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.

    Author: Alex Morrison
   

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

    Author: Alex Morrison
   

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.

    Author: Alex Morrison
   

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.

    Author: Algernon Sydney
   

Our talks in Paris tackled economic, democratic, security and political issues; we talked on means for combating terrorism, in addition to latest regional and international developments of mutual interest, especially those in region.

    Author: Ali A. Saleh
   

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

    Author: Allan Sherman
   

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

    Author: Allen Tate
   

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

    Author: Allen Weinstein
   

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

    Author: Allen Weinstein
   

Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.

    Author: Allyson Schwartz
   

The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran.

    Author: Allyson Schwartz
   

It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.

    Author: Alva Myrdal
   

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

    Author: Ambrose Bierce
   

The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.

    Author: Amir Butler
   

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

    Author: Andrew Card
   

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

    Author: Andrew Cohen
   

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

    Author: Ann Coulter
   

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

    Author: Anna Garlin Spencer
   

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

    Author: Anna Lindh
   

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.

    Author: Anna Lindh
   

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

    Author: Anna Lindh
   

The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.

    Author: Anna Lindh
   

We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.

    Author: Anna Lindh
   

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

    Author: Anna Lindh
   

We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.

    Author: Anna Lindh
   

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

    Author: Anna Quindlen
   

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

    Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
   

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

    Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
   

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

    Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
   

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

    Author: Anne Wilson Schaef
   

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

    Author: Ari Fleischer
   

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

    Author: Arlen Specter
   

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

    Author: Arlen Specter
   

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

    Author: Arlen Spector
   

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

    Author: Armstrong Williams
   

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

    Author: Art Buchwald
   

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

    Author: Art Buchwald
   

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

    Author: Arthur Erickson
   

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

    Author: Arthur Hertzberg
   

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

    Author: Arthur Miller
   

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.

    Author: Asa Hutchinson
   

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

    Author: Asa Hutchinson
   

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

    Author: Aung San Suu Kyi
   

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

    Author: Aung San Suu Kyi
   

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

    Author: B. C. Forbes
    Topics: Business

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

    Author: B. Carroll Reece
   

But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.

    Author: Bainbridge Colby
   

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

    Author: Barack Obama
   

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

    Author: Barack Obama
   

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.

    Author: Barbara Boxer
   

The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.

    Author: Barbara Boxer
   

I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.

    Author: Barbara Mikulski
   

When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

    Author: Barbara Mikulski
   

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

    Author: Barbara Mikulski
   

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

    Author: Barbara Pym
   

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

    Author: Barry McCaffrey
   

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

    Author: Bashar al-Assad
   

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

    Author: Ben Affleck
   

The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.

    Author: Ben Nelson
   

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

    Author: Benazir Bhutto
   

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

    Author: Benazir Bhutto
   

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

    Author: Benjamin Disraeli
   

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

    Author: Benjamin Disraeli
   

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

    Author: Benjamin Franklin
   

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

    Author: Benjamin Spock
   

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

    Author: Benjamin Tucker
   

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

    Author: Bennie Thompson
   

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

    Author: Bernadette Devlin
   

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

    Author: Bill Delahunt
   

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

    Author: Bill Delahunt
   

Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.

    Author: Bill Frist
   

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

    Author: Bill Frist
   

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.

    Author: Bill Gates
   

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

    Author: Bill Laswell
   

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

    Author: Bill Maher
   

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

    Author: Bill Owens
   

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.

    Author: Bill Owens
   

Ideally the world would look like Davos, where there's more security than we can even see on the street.

    Author: Bill Owens
   

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

    Author: Bill Shuster
   

We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world.

    Author: Bill Shuster
   

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

    Author: Bill Walsh
   

Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

    Author: Bill Weld
   

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