Michael Chertoff Quotes

And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again.

Michael Chertoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 28, 1953

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'Horse thunder' is what I call the sound of galloping hooves.

John Fusco

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We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

John Oliver

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There's a large oak tree in the Newton Centre park playground that is legendary because only a few humans have hit it with a baseball from home plate, and B.J. Novak is among them. And I was there that day.

John Krasinski

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If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

Sidney Poitier

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I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

Tom Stoppard

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It sounds like a media line, but I'm passionate about thanking the fans for their support.

Tom Felton

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I've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek.

Luke Evans

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I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.

Jason Blum

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Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

Jaron Lanier

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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

Douglas Coupland

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I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And we had grown close, and so it was, like, time for her birthday party and I said 'Oh, like, what time do I come for your party?' And she's like 'Oh, no, you can't come to my house 'cause my parents don't like black people.'

Dee Rees

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