“Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.” PeopleThinkingCareLeftSocialIssuesSecuritySocial Security Author:John Podesta
“The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.” PeopleIfsWayMatterWould BeFightingLeftSecurityConversationTyrannyAgencyPrivacyCapabilityDictatorNational SecurityTelephonesTelegrams Author:Frank Church
“When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.” ThinkingLongRunningJobsLeftUnitedQualitySecurityMembersWorkersAgendasLong RunsPublic Service Author:Andy Stern
“It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.” GivingYearsIdeasLastsLeftSleepBreakSecurityIllusionBlameGirlfriendLast YearLove RelationshipOpiumSoma Author:Billy Corgan
“Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.” YearsLeftKnownSecurityMethodInvestmentAll TimeCashMathematicianEstatesSalaryEuler Book:Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street Source: Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
“Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.” LittlesEnoughFatherLeftEasyLibertySecurityOrdinaryRemainsBetrayedArbitraryEver AfterDungeonsExpired Author:Frances Osborne
“From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.” ChildrenGovernmentLeftPresidentBehindsPlansSecurityCreationDrugMajorsDepartmentPassagesExpansionLeft BehindPresident BushHomelandPrescriptionsMedicarePrescription DrugsHomeland SecurityNo Child Left BehindDepartment Of Homeland Security Author:Chuck Todd