In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.
- Nick Clooney
Through, Funding, Address, Funds
We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.
- Nick Clooney
Treat, More, Some, Mortals
A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.
- Nick Clooney
Social, Raising, Bush, Salute
Our nest eggs, no matter how small, are safe.
- Nick Clooney
Small, Eggs, How, Nest
In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.
- Nick Clooney
Small, Concerned, Large, Decreasing
Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population.
- Nick Clooney
Big, Other, Necessary, Abide
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.
- Nick Clooney
Middle, Social, Violent, Earner
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
- Nick Clooney
Mistake, American, Iraq, Timetable
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.
- Nick Clooney
Impossible, Wide, Widening, Gulf
America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.
- Nick Clooney
Temple, Industry, Things, Invention
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.
- Nick Clooney
Failures, 1920s, Which, Struck
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
- Nick Clooney
Difficult Times, Including, Faced
For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.
- Nick Clooney
Reason, Some, Everyday Lives, Passing
Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.
- Nick Clooney
Year, Pay, Social, All Year
Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.
- Nick Clooney
Irish, Might, Historical, Jokes
What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.
- Nick Clooney
Behind, Nation, United, Savings
One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.
- Nick Clooney
Big, Some, Late-Night, Relatively
As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.
- Nick Clooney
Other, May, Occurred, Affection
Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.
- Nick Clooney
Particularly, Geographic, Affection
The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
- Nick Clooney
Values, Doing, Importantly, Respond
Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.
- Nick Clooney
Security, Last, Social, Social Security
Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.
- Nick Clooney
Next, Years, Our, Muslims
We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.
- Nick Clooney
Human Condition, Condition, Improving
No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy.
- Nick Clooney
Matter, More, We Cannot, Troops
The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.
- Nick Clooney
Hands, Kind, Iraq, Emerges
Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.
- Nick Clooney
Rest, Them, Being, Cruel
It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.
- Nick Clooney
Nation, Congress, Terms, Welfare
The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
- Nick Clooney
Happen, Worst, Ideological, Worst Thing
We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.
- Nick Clooney
Evil, Becoming, Defeat
We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.
- Nick Clooney
Becoming, Defeat
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