“If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.” IfsKnowsMenLongProblemGuySocialNiceSecurityHe ManOur FamilyUnemploymentSocial SecurityCharlieMedicareNice GuyMedicaidMedicare And Medicaid Author:Charles Rangel
“Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?” WantGivingCountryGuySocialHalfMillionsAdviceSecurityBillsDollarsFinancialRanSocial SecurityQualifiedMillion DollarsNewtsDollar BillsFinancial Advice Author:David Letterman
“My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you. Also, you could try to distance yourself emotionally from the whole situation. In my case, I just look at it objectively: We are two guys going inside a cage to work. That's it. Try to de-escalate the pressure. Take a couple of deep breaths. Don't hype things up. And stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.” IfsTryingLooksTwoWholeGuyOrderFightingSituationCasesAdviceSecurityCoupleHabitTrainingPressureBreathsDistanceCalmMmaCagesHypeStay PositiveDeep BreathBest AdviceGood HabitsTwo Guys Author:Alexander Gustafsson
“I have nothing against the North Koreans but this Kim Jong Un has got a screw loose. A member of his cabinet, his security minister, nods off, falls sleep. We've all done it. Kim Jong Un takes the guy out and has him executed, just for just falling asleep. Oh, and he was also deflating footballs.” DoneGuyFallSleepSecurityFootballMembersMinistersScrewsNorth KoreaKoreanCabinetsKimNorth KoreanFalling Asleep Author:David Letterman
“Gary Condit is on the Congressional committee for Homeland Security. They make the guy responsible for Homeland Security who is the guy no one would feel secure going home with.” FeelsHomeGuySecurityResponsibleSecureCommitteesHomelandGaryGoing HomeHomeland SecurityCongressional Committees Author:Jay Leno
“A second Homeland Security official has been arrested, a 49-year-old guy named Frank Figueroa, he was caught exposing and fondling himself to a teenage girl in a shopping mall in Florida. Do you realize? If Osama bin Laden was a 14-year old girl, we would have had him by now. ... Who is going to start protecting us from the Department of Homeland Security? ... It kind of makes you long for the good old wholesome days of the Clinton administration.” IfsYearsKindLongHas BeensGuyGirlRealizingSecurityClintonCaughtAdministrationOfficialsDepartmentShoppingFrankFloridaTeenageArrestedBin LadenHomelandMallsExposingOsama Bin LadenTeenage GirlHomeland SecurityOld GuysFondlingDepartment Of Homeland Security Author:Jay Leno
“The federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They're instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn't that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.” WantFirstsSaidGovernmentTodayGuyNamesWifeSecurityEasierCallingTrainingWorkersSatisfactionCustomersTouchingFederal GovernmentGlancesAirportsSessionCreepyTagCustomer SatisfactionLuggageSecurity GuardsAirport Security Author:Jay Leno
“I flew this past weekend. I went through airport security and said to the guy, 'Is everything okay?' He said, 'You might want to have that mole on your ass checked out.' That seems a little personal to me.” WantLittlesSaidSeemsMightPastGuySecurityOkayAssWeekendAirportsFlewMolesAirport Security Author:Jay Leno
“Every movie I work with the costume designer to see what feels like the character, not what Columbus would wear but what is right for the character. Outside of the armored truck standard issue security guard uniform, this guy is trying to make ends meet. He might have one pair of jeans, the same boot, maybe changes his shirt but he doesn't have a walk-in closet full of things, so I wanted something comfortable that felt like the character.” FeelsTryingEndsCharacterMightWantedGuyFeltWalksIssuesSecurityComfortableStandardsShirtsDesignerPairsBootsUniformsClosetsJeansCostumesThis GuyTruckColumbusSecurity Guards Author:Columbus Short
“Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.” MayGuyNationsSecurityWillingFoolInternetHeroEvidenceProgramToolsDetailsChinaAgencyPatriotNational SecurityOngoingTraitorSinisterSnowdenEavesdropping Author:Arthur L. Herman
“National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law talks about anyone who endangers the security of the United States is going to go to jail. So, here you are, especially in the Pentagon. Some guy tells you something. He says that's a national security matter. Well, you're supposed to tremble and get scared and it never, almost never means the security of the national government. More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.” WantWellsMeanMatterStatesProblemBigsGovernmentLawGuyUnitedUnited StatesSecurityScaredJournalistJailSaltNational SecurityBig ProblemsPentagonPersonal Happiness Author:Ben Bradlee
“I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country. The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nation's well-being.” PeopleThinkingWellsWarCountryEnoughMightGuyStrongNationsClearRecordsSecurityTruth IsToughWell BeingOppositionSignificanceVietnamAntiwarIdealist Author:George McGovern
“Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.” GuyBreakTakenSecurityMachinesExploitsMacs Author:Bill Gates
“You could make an analogy to a security guard who, three weeks prior, was mowing lawns for a living. The second he puts a uniform on and that badge, he's a man. I imagine the majority of us have felt the wrath of the over-zealous security guard guy. Is there something lying dormant in the man, that's waiting to be pumped up with that kind of power? I don't know. Does it reveal him? I don't know. Does it change him? I don't know.” KnowsMenKindDoeLyingGuyThreeFeltWaitingImagineWeekSecurityHe ManMajorityUniformsWrathLawnsAnalogiesBadgesDormantZealousSecurity GuardsMowingMowing The Lawn Author:Johnny Depp
“Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, all these guys talk about how the United States became a national security state after World War II. I agree with that thesis. Essentially there's this bipartisan foreign policy elite who've been calling the shots for the last few decades and they're clearly still in control regardless of how clownish or absurd or stupid they demonstrate themselves to be. There's no shaking their orthodoxy.” WorldStillsWarStatesLastsGuyUnitedUnited StatesSecurityStupidPolicyCallingShotsAgreeDecadesAbsurdWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiElitesForeign PolicyWorld War INational SecurityShakingGoreOrthodoxyThesisBipartisanCalling The Shots Author:Michael Hastings
“One story I've been trying to write for years, and haven't been able to finish, is about a face I saw, just a glimpse of a face, in a max security prison in North Carolina. I'm still trying to understand what I saw in that guy's face.” WritingTryingYearsStillsStoriesAbleFacesGuySawsSecurityHavensPrisonGlimpseThat GuyMaxCarolinaNorth Carolina Author:Peter Orner
“Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With these guys, we're not talking about the kind of common crimes that Nixon committed. I can't tell you whether they are technically breaking the law, but basically, the American government has been hijacked by neoconservatives. They are taking an awful lot of national security operations into the White House.” KindHas BeensI CanGovernmentLawGuyHouseWhiteCommonTalkingSecurityCrimeActivityCommittedCriminalsAwfulBrokeOperationsWhite HouseNational SecurityPaymentNot TalkingHushCover UpsAmerican GovernmentWatergateBreaking The Law Author:Seymour Hersh
“I was living in New York, so I just rode my motorcycle up to the set [of New Jack City]. So first day of work for me was kind of tough. I get ready to get off my bike, and I'm surrounded by the security guards, who were Louis Farrakhan's Nation Of Islam guys. Who had the double-breasted suits and guns. And this guy goes, "Where you goin'?" And I said, "I'm here to work." And they said, "No you're not." And I said, "Yeah. I'm here to work on the movie." And they said, "No you're not. Get on your bike."” FirstsKindSaidGuyNationsCitiesSecurityNew YorkReadyGunToughYeahIslamSuitsThey SaidBikeThis GuyMotorcycleSecurity GuardsNation Of Islam Author:Judd Nelson
“There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsFirstsIdeasGuyInterestingTeachSecurityDesignDressesAssumingExtrasPocketsGrayCombatPantsBad Guys Author:William Gibson
“I am deeply worried about Donald Trump on matters of national security. He doesn't know anything himself about it, and he has appointed a national security adviser, Mike Flynn, who is a pro-Russia conspiracy theorist, and he's just put Steve Bannon, a guy with connections to white supremacy and antisemitism, onto the National Security Council.” KnowsMatterGuyWhiteSecurityTrumpConnectionsRussiaWorriedConspiracyNational SecurityWhite SupremacyCouncilMikeSupremacyAdviserTheoristsSecurity Council Author:Tim Kaine
“My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these other major expenditures that we have that we've got to deal with to make sure that we're not just leaving you guys with a mountain of debt.” WellsGuySocialDealsSecurityRepublicanMountainMajorsDemocraticLeavingDebtAgreementSocial SecurityExpenditures Author:Barack Obama
“I think the beard helps offset - it's the only hairstyle I can really pull off. But I'm often clean-shaven. I think, you know, for me, it's not that signifier. What's interesting to me though is although the beard isn't a signifier of that to me, other people very often think that it is. And so people in America might react differently. The, you know, border agents might react differently. The guys at airport security might react differently.” PeopleThinkingKnowsI CanHelpingMightAmericaGuyInterestingSecurityCleanAgentsBordersAirportsBeardHairstylesAirport SecurityClean Shaven Author:Mohsin Hamid