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secret service

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the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents

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The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed. Michael Foot

I am still in touch with my Secret Service agents, most of whom are retired now. They really get to be your friends. They watched me grow up, and most of them had little kids, so I was kind of giving them a warm-up of what was coming. Susan Ford

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up. Val Kilmer

Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company. Herbert Hoover

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate. Jesse Jackson

John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service. Andy Borowitz

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