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A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.
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If you want to continue being leaders in the world, start by getting some of that [Federal] debt off your backs. Debtors can't be leaders. It's the guy holding the IOUs who can call the shots; the other guy is called a hostage.


— 1992  Quoted in the NewYork Times, 26 May.

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No young American in uniform should ever be held hostage to America's dependence on oil from the Middle East.


— 2004  Speech in New Hampshire, 27  Jan.

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Cassidy had been drawn to the crime beat because of its guaranteed drama. It offered murders, kidnappings, armed robbery, and the occasional hostage situation. But predictable it wasn’t.

lis wiehl

— p. 193 (Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson))

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I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but reclaiming it afterward wasn't hard at all.

stephanie zacharek

— Review of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)

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One scarcely knows if he would be of more use to us as a hostage, or set loose to be a very bad enemy leader.

lois mcmaster bujold

— p. 459 (Cryoburn (2010))

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Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

Alain de Botton

— Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 122

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The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me.

robert h. jackson

— International Harvester Co. v. Wisconsin Dept. of Taxation, 322 U.S. 435, 450 (1944).

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If we give in to the terrorists we will have more skyjacking, and not merely from the Arabs...Whatever happenes to these hostages and I could easily have been one of them if we give in even more people will be taken hostage and more lives will be laid at risk.

norman tebbit

— On the Dawson's Field hijackings (BBC's Today programme, 1970).
Tebbit, p. 127.

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