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“If you want to understand what's happening to the situation in a town in Afghanistan, go down to the market. Is it vibrant? Is it safe? That will tell you an enormous amount about the security situation.”

Ifs Want Situation Security Amount Safe Happenings Towns Enormous Afghanistan

Author:Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

“Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.”

Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes.”

Thinking War Interest Security Crime Court Threat International Criminals Enormous Discretion Prosecutor War Crimes

Author:John Bolton

“We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.”

Thinking Way Kind Government Individual Issues Security Dangerous Balance Approach Percent Burden Harm Terrorist Enormous Privacy Our Society Privacy And Security

Author:Barack Obama

“In the last thirty years we have gained enormous amount of freedom (everywhere, except perhaps in places like Burma or North Korea), but we lost quite a large amount of security. Because of all sorts of reasons, because of globalization which stripped the nation state of a large part of its sovereignty away, because of the dismantling of the so-called welfare state. As a result, people feel simultaneously much freer and much more insecure.”

People Feels Years States Reason Lasts Lost Nations Results Security Amount Enormous Welfare Thirty Insecure Sovereignty Globalization Korea North Korea Thirty Years Welfare State Burma

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“I was under police security for 15 years because I was on their hit-list. I opposed Khalistan because I thought it would be suicide for the Sikh community to demand a separate state, and they heard me because they knew I was one of them. I think I turned round at least the intelligent Sikh's point of view and that gave me enormous satisfaction.”

Thinking Years States Would Be Community Views Heard Security Demand Intelligent Police Suicide Rounds Satisfaction Point Of View Lists Enormous

Author:Khushwant Singh

“I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.”

“We provide an enormous amount of resources, particularly with regard to military resources, to countries all over the world. And in many cases, those countries are not compensating the American taxpayer for the commitment that we're making to their security.”

World Country Cases Security Military Amount Commitment Resources Regard Enormous Taxpayers

Author:Mike Pence