Salman Rushdie Quotes

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• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Fight
  • Security
  • Turn

• 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.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Believe
  • Security
  • Legal

• 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.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Victory
  • Security
  • Tax

• All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Power
  • Famous
  • Gun

• Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Done
  • Justice
  • Security

• Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

  

  Zell Miller
  • American
  • America
  • Today

• For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

  

  Harry Browne
  • History
  • Liberty
  • Security

• The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • True
  • Wrong

• What seems like comfort and security one day can all be taken away the very next.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Day
  • Taken
  • Security

• The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Security
  • Manufacturing

• Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Proud
  • Security

• I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Sound
  • Security

• I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Security
  • Terrible

• John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Like
  • Security
  • Outsourcing

• I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • United States
  • Iraq

• The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Financial
  • New
  • Security

• Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Knowledge
  • Security
  • Changes

• Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Religious
  • Equality
  • Speech

• The judge ruled against us on both the revocation and the text change, reasoning that we used the wrong legal vehicles. We will have to have some serious discussions before we make a decision as to whether to appeal the decision or not.

  

  John Britton
  • Decision
  • Judge
  • Against

• If wealth is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Knowledge
  • Security
  • Independence

• We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

  

  Herb Kohl
  • Real
  • Today
  • Promise

• Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Work
  • Political
  • Freedom

• Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Security
  • Against
  • Airport