Richard Shelby Quotes
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Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.
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We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.
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A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.
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What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.
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Bullying is a national epidemic.
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The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.
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The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel!
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Of course, when you're a parent, that's your paramount concern, for your children, and there were some very credible and frightening threats, and the agency declined to provide any security, and it felt like a betrayal all over again. It was really painful.
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We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.
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Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
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I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
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I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.
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Only the insecure strive for security.
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
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There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.
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Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.
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We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.
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If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
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House Republicans have taken the lead in providing America with price stability and a bold plan for this nation's energy future.
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In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.
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I've been a stalwart for national security.
