Nick Clooney
Nick Clooney
Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Clooneyis an American journalist, anchorman, and television host. He is the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney and the father of actor/director/producer, George Clooney...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGame Show Host
Date of Birth13 January 1934
CityMaysville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
america extinction difficult-times
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
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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.
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We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.
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We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.
roots quality killers
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.
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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.
lasts social security
Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.
believe lifetime human-condition
We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.
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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.
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Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.
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The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
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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.
historical might matter
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.
animal may affection
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.