Edward Condon Quotes

The whole apparatus of using loyalty-security hearings for working off personal political spite has been firmly established as a part of our "way of life" and I do not see anything happening yet to loosen the hold of this machinery on us.

Edward Condon

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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

• Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Security
  • Against
  • Airport

• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • High
  • Security
  • Numbers

• Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Down
  • Security
  • Walk

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• I am a common man. Why do I need security?

  

  Kariya Munda
  • Man
  • Security

• 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.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Safety
  • Security
  • Execution

• But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Honor
  • Security

• Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • You
  • Security
  • Lawyers

• Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Country
  • Think
  • Security

• In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Military
  • Service
  • Security

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Work
  • American
  • Single

• There was very polite, gentlemanly, and - and - and lady-like push-back on issues on both sides. Chuck Schumer continues to push this idea of this $30 billion tunnel under the Hudson River, um, that Donald Trump very politely pushed back on. But I thought it was cordial and productive. The president is not giving up on the wall, and he's certainly not giving up on border security.

  

  Mick Mulvaney
  • Giving
  • President
  • Security

• For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

  

  Steve Israel
  • Reason
  • Security
  • Retirement

• In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Danger
  • France

• People, by nature, have a tendency to snap. We get upset at things. We get angry. I'm sure everybody has said, once or twice in their life, "God, I just want to kill you!" That's just a thought that we have. That's a natural thought. It is only when people act upon that, that it becomes this huge deal.

  

  Edwin Hodge
  • Nature
  • Angry
  • Deal

• Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Culture
  • Bowling
  • Ivory

• The whole apparatus of using loyalty-security hearings for working off personal political spite has been firmly established as a part of our "way of life" and I do not see anything happening yet to loosen the hold of this machinery on us.

  

  Edward Condon
  • Security
  • Established
  • Way Of Life