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“I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.”

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Author:Mitch McConnell

“In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.”

Wanted Company My Family Misery Hostage

Author:Jerry Stahl

“We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.”

Eternity All Time Captives Hostage

Author:Boris Pasternak

“In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress, can’t win their fights for the Presidency, and can’t win their fights in Courts. For this right-wing minority, hostage-taking is all they have left – a last gasp of those who cannot cope with the realities of our democracy.”

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Author:Elizabeth Warren

“If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.”

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Author:Jean Baudrillard

“We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.”

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Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Rushdie is a hostage.”

Hostage Rushdie

Author:Don DeLillo

“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.”

Source: The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?

“I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.”

Given Wife Son Fortune Hostage

Author:F. L. Lucas

“Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.”

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Author:Alexander Haig

“There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.”

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Author:Ehud Barak

“If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.”

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Author:Tom Cole

“In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.”

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Author:Phillip E. Johnson