“Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.” StatesFactsUsePoliticalSocialLeaderHonestSecurityFiguresJudgingCitizensDataBeing HonestSocial SecurityPolitical LeadersForthcoming Author:Grace Napolitano
“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.” WellsLongDoeImportantFactsFacesSocialTermChallengesSupportClearSecurityCitizensProgramWell BeingLong TermStabilitySeniorSocial SecurityCrystalsCornerstonesSenior Citizen Author:Bill Frist
“I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what I feel when I perceive something beautiful. Sometimes it's a pang or a sensation; at other times it is an awareness of joy and security or pure pleasure. In any event, it is a moment to be celebrated. Beauty justifies itself. The fact that it is beyond definition means nothing.” FeelsMeanSometimesMomentsFactsBeautifulJoySpiritValuesOrderPleasureWonderBeautyAwarenessSecurityEventsPureDefinitionsPerceiveJustifySensationsRichnessSomething Beautiful Author:Luci Swindoll
“This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.” RealFactsFacesEnergyNationsClearEconomicSecurityDangerCrisisIndependenceOilAlternativesDependenceForeign OilEnergy CrisisEconomic Independence Author:Jimmy Carter
“Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason is the fact that, as a terrorist, you could still buy a gun in this country because the NRA lobby is so strong.” StillsCountryFactsPoliticalStrongWishSecurityGunVoteFinancialTerroristHomelandTreasonLegislatorsNraHomeland SecuritySecurity Measures Author:Bill Maher
“Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude.” WellsTwoFactsAbleAcceptingSecuritySolitudeConstantInstinctSeekingHorribleTwo ThingsCommunionGrasping Author:Ingmar Bergman
“There are times when the welfare system may appear as an impediment to growth. Yet the drive for growth should always bear in mind the fact that people also need security” PeopleNeedsShouldMindMayFactsGrowthSecurityBearsWelfareImpediments Author:Romano Prodi
“The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.” FactsShowsAmericaPoliticalPresidentInterestPartySecurityInformationWillingSafeGainsTrustedPolitical PartiesClassified Information Author:Howard Dean
“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.” PeopleWantFactsPastLandSecurityComfortableTrackMistrustInvoke Author:Robert Kennedy
“The fact that other countries spy on their own people or spy on each other does not address the fact that the US is engaged in massive, bulk collection to the tune of 70.3 million telecommunications a month in France of perfectly innocent people. That has nothing to do with protecting the United States, and has nothing to do with really gathering any kind of meaningful intelligence on France. It is an overreach ... and I think the other countries are justifiably outraged .... As one of our founders said: Those who choose between liberty and security deserve neither.” PeopleThinkingKindDoeSaidCountryStatesFactsUnitedLibertyMillionsUnited StatesSecurityMonthsDeserveMeaningfulInnocentFranceEngagedCollectionsAddressesTunesMassiveOther CountriesFoundersGatheringSpyOutragedTelecommunications Author:Jesselyn Radack
“Hey, Barack Obama had to give up his Blackberry. He's the first wired president. ... He might have to give his Blackberry because of security reasons. Because they're easy to hack into. In fact, when Obama heard he might have to give it up, he said, 'OMG! WTF?' I mean, he couldn't believe it.” GivingFirstsBelieveMeanSaidReasonFactsMightEasyPresidentHeardSecurityGiving UpHeyBarackHacksBlackberries Author:Jay Leno
“We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society.” FactsLostNationsSecuritySightTraditionalSecureAgencyNational SecuritySurveillanceDepartureHacking Author:Edward Snowden
“Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge raised security alert to a code red. Apparently Howard Dean has escaped. Did you see Dean's crazed speech the other night, yelling? I see why his wife won't campaign with him. In fact, Dean has a new slogan: 'Aaghhhh.'” FactsNightWifeSecuritySpeechRedRaisedCampaignsChiefsCodeTomsSlogansHomelandYellingDeanRidgesHomeland Security Author:Jay Leno
“Most terrorists are false flag terrorists, or are created by our own security services. In the United States, every single terrorist incident we have had has been a false flag, or has been an informant pushed on by the FBI. In fact, we now have citizens taking out restraining orders against FBI informants that are trying to incite terrorism. We've become a lunatic asylum.” TryingHas BeensStatesFactsOrderUnitedUnited StatesSecurityCitizensTerrorismTerroristFlagsIncidentsFbiLunaticAsylumsRestrainingLunatic AsylumsInformantsRestraining Orders Author:Robert David Steele
“until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is 'not you' flow over and engulf you, there can be no lasting sense of security. Only by being prepared to accept annihilation can one escape from that spiritual 'abiding alone' which is in fact the truly death-like state.” KnowsGivingStatesWholeFactsSpiritualUniverseAcceptingSecurityAcceptanceFlowPreparedLastingAbidingAnnihilationGiving In Author:Marion Milner
“There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.” PeopleStillsDoneFactsLastsPeaceSecurityLessonsRemainsAgreementCrucialSigningWork To Be DonePeace And Security Author:Hillary Clinton
“In 2006, the Secure Fence Act was signed into law, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build upward of 700 miles of double layered fencing along the U. S-Mexico border. While the Obama administration is quick to state that the targets have been met, only a small fraction - in fact, less than 40 miles - of the newly implemented infrastructure is double-layered.” Has BeensStatesFactsLawSecurityMetsMilesImmigrationSecureAdministrationBordersDepartmentTargetMexicoFenceInfrastructureHomelandFractionsIllegal ImmigrationHomeland SecurityFencingDepartment Of Homeland Security Author:Duncan Hunter
“We're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and then cut back on the needs of our elderly or poor or kids or education. We're not going to privatize Social Security - in fact, we're going to strengthen it. We're going to provide quality education for every kid in America, from preschool through college. We have to take on these corporate leaders who are selling out the American people, whose allegiance is now much more to China than it is to the United States. If we have the courage to take these people on, I think we can overwhelm George W. Bush and his friends.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsGivingStatesFactsKidsAmericaSocialPoorUnitedQualityLeaderBreakUnited StatesCuttingSecurityCollegeTaxesChinaSellingCorporateSocial SecurityElderlyAllegianceBillionaireQuality EducationSelling OutTax BreaksPreschool Author:Bernie Sanders
“If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.” IfsWantHardFactsLyingPerfectSecurityCrimePerfect Crime Author:Claude Lelouch
“Another factor is the post-9/11 security mentality, which views sunlight as toxic and imagines that somehow bin Laden is dependent upon our government documents, a "fact" that has never, ever been supported to my knowledge. So, that's the second factor.” FactsGovernmentViewsImagineSecurityFactorsPostsDependentToxicMentalityImagine ThatSunlightDocumentsBin Laden Author:Ted Gup
“When you talk about the security and safety of average Americans it doesn't do average Americans a lot of good to expand America's military footprint if the daily lives of average Americans are being undermined by the fact that we're no longer able to compete in a global economy. I think that's the kind of human security we have to pay more attention to.” IfsThinkingHumansKindFactsAbleAmericaPayAttentionEconomySecurityMilitarySafetyAverageDaily LifeFootprintGlobal Economy Author:Peter Beinart
“There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill with impunity, where they can turn up at a place, shoot seven people - really at point-blank fashions - and then get away with it and be, in fact, promoted. And then there is the actual responsibility, the governmental responsibility. My aunt's government forbade us, initially, from filing a police report - which is every Pakistani citizen's right under the law.” PeopleFirstsTwoFactsGovernmentLawTurnsForceResponsibilityMoralSecurityFashionCitizensCreatingPoliceSevenAtmosphereTwo ThingsReportsGet AwayBlankAuntImpunityFilingMoral ResponsibilitySecurity Forces Author:Fatima Bhutto
“The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people?” PeopleThinkingShouldI CanStatesReasonFactsUseWould BeUnitedUnited StatesWiseImpossibleSecurityExampleCircumstancesWeaponsDestructionAddNuclearScalesInnocentReason WhyTargetNuclear WeaponsCompellingBeing WiseLarge ScaleRetaliationCompelling Reason Author:Paul Nitze
“No matter what politicians promise, Social Security reform will not change the fact that your money is taken from your paycheck and sent to Washington, where it will be spent.” MatterFactsSocialTakenSecurityPoliticianPromiseNo Matter WhatReformSocial SecurityPaychecksPoliticians Promises Author:Ron Paul
“Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty. If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.” IfsTryingYearsLooksKindDoeHardReasonFactsLyingFightingHouseSocialSecurityMediaRepublicanArgumentVoteMajorityDemocratCongressCardsWelfareImmigrantsNo ReasonIllegalThrowingSocial SecurityAttackingPaymentIllegal ImmigrantsAmnestyConcluding Author:Ann Coulter
“In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.” FactsGovernmentSecurityTrackBordersImmigrantsAllowingLicenseHomelandHomeland SecurityLicensesBorder Security Author:Joe Baca
“[E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt democratic ways and to shine the light of liberty into its culture of medieval darkness is a pragmatic necessity for the future security of the civilized world. That is the reality behind the President's address. Only people in serious denial can be blind to this fact. Only liberals.” PeopleWorldWayHeartFactsRealityLightCulturePresidentBehindsLibertyDarknessSecuritySeriousBlindShiningThreatDemocraticTerroristDenialAddressesCivilizedMedievalPragmaticMuslim World Author:David Horowitz
“American friends of Israel as well as those who understand the grave threat that Iran poses to U.S. interests and security need to face the fact that this president has abandoned them.” NeedsWellsFactsFacesPresidentInterestSecurityThreatIsraelGravesIranAbandoned Author:Jonathan S. Tobin
“When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost like a hibernating hedgehog I relish the security of being withdrawn from all that summer ferment that is long since past. Then is the time for reappraisal: to spread out, limp and receptive, and let garden thoughts rise to the surface. They emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.” LongFactsPastHouseSecuritySourceWasteSummerGardenWinterSpreadSurfaceIceLandscapeStillnessFrozenCurtainsJanuaryRelishReceptiveHedgehogs Author:Mirabel Osler
“In fact, in Indiana we suspended the Syrian refugee program in the wake of the terrorist attack. We have no higher priority than the safety and security of the people of this country, and Donald Trump is right to articulate that view.” PeopleCountryFactsViewsSecurityTrumpHigherProgramSafetyPrioritiesTerroristRefugeeSuspendedIndianaTerrorist AttacksSafety And SecuritySyrian Refugees Author:Mike Pence
“Finally, here at home, in one of her first decisions as Secretary of State, she set up a private e-mail server in her basement in violation of our national security. Let's face the facts: Hillary Clinton cared more about protecting her own secrets than she cared about protecting America's secrets.” FirstsStatesFactsHomeAmericaFacesDecisionSecretSecurityClintonMailSecretaryNational SecurityViolationBasementsServerProtecting Her Author:Chris Christie
“As a matter of fact if you think about [Donald Trump press conference after visit to Mexico], that could have been may be one of the Gang of Eight, the bipartisan group that in the Senate some years ago passed a bill that said border security. It said thousands of new border guards to deal with the porous border. It talked about a pathway to legalization for the 11 or 12 million undocumented that live in this country.” IfsThinkingYearsMayHas BeensSaidCountryMatterFactsDealsMillionsGroupsSecurityTrumpYears AgoBillsPressesEightBordersSenateMexicoConferencesGangCould Have BeenPathwaysMatter Of FactBipartisanPress ConferencesBorder Security Author:Jose Diaz-Balart
“I regret that we weren't able to reform Social Security. The fact that we weren't able to when we had majorities in the House and the Senate I think reflected poorly on our political party.” ThinkingFactsAblePoliticalHouseSocialPartySecurityRegretMajorityReformSenatePolitical PartiesSocial SecurityI Regret Author:George W. Bush
“I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.” ThinkingWantYearsFactsSocialSecurityCitizensDignityDifficultyFirmRetiringSeniorSocial SecurityOpen MindedSenior CitizenDignity And Respect Author:Barack Obama
“Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere.” FactsRoomsSecurityTypeWindowCornersAbsenceHotelLockedLocksFairytaleHotel RoomsStorylinePasswords Author:Martin Lindstrom
“You've got to deploy serious political assets around a plan [in Darfur]. And the George W.] Bush administration has never had a plan. Ever. The Europeans don't want to do anything, saying, "The Americans are in charge of that." And in fact the Americans are in charge of naming it and bringing these resolutions every few weeks to the Security Council.” WantFactsPoliticalPlansWeekSecuritySeriousAdministrationResolutionAssetsCouncilSecurity CouncilDarfur Author:Samantha Power
“We were great mates [with Rajiv Gandhi]: very, very, very close friends. In fact, on my visit to India as Prime Minister, we were going to his home for dinner. There were two aspects I remember: one is him saying how he had trouble with his security people, because they insisted he wears a vest. He said it was very uncomfortable and he often took it off, but of course, in the end, it wouldn't have mattered if he'd been wearing three vests - he would have been gone.” PeopleIfsHas BeensSaidTwoEndsFactsHomeRememberThreeCoursesGoneTroubleSecurityAspectIndiaDinnerMinistersUncomfortablePrimeMatesPrime MinisterClose FriendsVests Author:Bob Hawke
“[ Rajiv Gandhi] was very reflective and rueful and regretful about the fact that his children's education...He wanted them to get educated outside of India, but he said to me the only place that he found where they would be safe was in Russia, and he didn't really want them to be educated there! So, I said, "Well, send them to Australia. I'll look after them." And my security bloke went absolutely bloody bananas, and I said, "We'll look after them." But, in the end, he didn't send them.” WantWellsLooksChildrenSaidEndsFactsWould BeWantedFoundSecuritySafeIndiaRussiaEducatedAustraliaBloodyBananasBlokesRegretful Author:Bob Hawke
“The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.” IfsFactsMightWould BeLawSocialRaceSecurityHugeSouthWorkersBeing TrueAfrican AmericanCoveredSocial SecurityExcludedChunks Author:Barack Obama
“I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.” FactsLibertySecurityArguingRealmsPrivacyRhetoricOpposingSecurity And Liberty Author:Edward Snowden
“When you talk about Social Security, it's not just enough to say, we're looking at you, this really matters. It's the fact that a million Americans think it matters. Oh, wait, it's 2 million Americans think it matters. No, it's 4 million Americans. It's 6 million, wait, it's 10 million, it's 50 million Americans who care about this. That's how we're going to make change.” ThinkingMatterEnoughFactsCareSocialWaitingMillionsSecurityWho CaresSocial Security Author:Elizabeth Warren
“What you have in President Trump is someone who is willing to, and is, in fact, engaging the world, including Russia, and saying, where can we find common interests that will advance the security of the American people, the peace and prosperity of the world? And he is determined to come at that in a new and renewed way.” PeopleWorldWayFactsPresidentInterestCommonSecurityWillingTrumpIncludingProsperityDeterminedRussiaEngagingCommon Interests Author:Mike Pence
“It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.” WarFactsHumanityPeaceSecurityConflictSecureUnfortunatePreparingPreparing For War Author:John F. Kennedy
“The fact that some former national security officials challenge the policy wisdom of the order, while other national security officials - most notably those of this [Donald Trump's] administration - support it, merely demonstrates that these are policy disputes that the judiciary is both ill-equipped and constitutionally barred from arbitrating.” FactsOrderChallengesSupportSecurityPolicyTrumpIllFormerAdministrationOfficialsNational SecurityDisputesJudiciary Author:David B. Rivkin
“The trouble is that the risks that are being hedged very well by new financial securities are financial risks. And it appears to me that the real things you want to hedge are real risks, for example, risks in innovation. The fact is that you'd like companies to be able to take bigger chances. Presumably one obstacle to successful R&D, particularly when the costs are large, are the risks involved.” WantWellsRealFactsAbleChanceCompanySuccessfulRiskTroubleSecurityExampleInvolvedCostBiggerInnovationFinancialObstaclesReal ThingsFinancial RiskFinancial Security Author:Kenneth Arrow
“There is a bit of a problem with the match between derivative securities markets and the primary markets. We have long ago instituted principles, essentially high margin requirements, to prevent certain instabilities in the stock market, and I think they're basically correct. The trouble is that there's a linkage, let's say, between something like the stock market and the index futures markets, and the fact that the margin requirements are very different, for example, played some role in the October '87 crash.” ThinkingLongDifferentFactsProblemCertainBitsPrinciplesRolesTroubleSecurityExamplePrimariesLong AgoCrashRequirementsMarginsOctoberInstabilityDerivativesLinkages Author:Kenneth Arrow