“The northern border gets scant attention compared to the border with Mexico, but [it] presents a significant threat to our security from illicit drugs and terrorism.”
Charles E. Schumer
“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.”
Quentin Crisp
“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.”
“As for the grass, it grew as scant as hair / In leprosy.”
Robert Browning
“It's notoriously a very volatile number, but it went to record levels just a scant year ago.”
Ben Hock
“Northern Command's mission to protect the homeland against foreign threats is separate and distinct from its mission to provide support to civil agencies in the event of a terrorist attack of catastrophic proportions, ... So part of the confusion you're seeing is the natural shaking-out process as the Defense Department stands up a new command and adopts a new mission that most generals assumed with great reluctance in the first place, given that their forces and budgets were already stretched thin. In that sense, Admiral Keating's comments were probably less about someone gunning to take the lead, and more a reflection of how much support Northern Command will likely be asked to provide in the event of a real catastrophe.”
David Heyman
