“To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.” ShouldFirstsSocialSecurityBenefitsGainsIncreaseImpactWorkersIncomeConsumersTypicalSocial SecurityInflationAmerican Workers Author:Steven Rattner
“The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.” ShouldStatesGovernmentSecurityCitizensVulnerableHealthcareFederal GovernmentFlexibility Author:Tom Vilsack
“The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.” WorldShouldLeaderAchieveSecurityIndustryCapacityBritishObjectivesWorld Leader Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.” ShouldSecurityCrimeParticularFraudTradingInsidersInsider Trading Author:Preet Bharara
“I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.” ShouldBelieveLongI BelieveSocialTermConditionsSecurityAccountsWorkersLong TermSocial SecurityDeficitReduction Author:Cliff Stearns
“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
“Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen their military superiority by weakening or restricting other countries.” ShouldMeanCountrySecurityMilitaryBecomingInstrumentsOther CountriesSuperiorityDisarmamentWeakeningEnhancement Author:Sha Zukang
“Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.” IfsKnowsMenShouldMadeBodyFoundNaturalCitiesDestinyAirStreetsSecuritySweetCivilizationScenePureTravelSickTownsVisibleThriveBroadsSanePlagueSan FranciscoCompact Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land.” IfsShouldFirstsCareOrderFourLandSecurityPrayingInsecurityQuartersTranquilityIf You CarePersonal Security Book:The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
“Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?” ShouldWarCountryHumanityCoursesPeaceJusticeFreedomLibertyTakenSecurityDependsGloryShameSafetyInjusticeCrueltyConsiderationResolution Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security.” ShouldFirstsRealGovernmentLawSecretSecurityMilitaryFundamentalsExpensesBroadsAmendmentsRepresentativesVagueFirst AmendmentDiplomaticGeneralitiesGuardingRepresentative Government Author:Hugo Black