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In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.


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CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure ...
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CHUCK EDDY Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance...
CHUCK TODD I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected.
CHUCK FLEISCHMANN Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the othe...
CHUCK D Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
CHUCK NORRIS Every day, we are bombarded with a multitude of toxins in the environment. We know that the negative...
CHUCK NORRIS I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt ...
CHUCK FEENEY My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was n...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable....
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basi...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book wr...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like b...
CHUCK BARRIS Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We can't deal with the flood in the orchards until we cap the floodwaters coming into them. And ...
CHUCK NORRIS Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as ess...
CHUCK D Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a...
CHUCK MANGIONE You decide your own level of involvement.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolis...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK