The lockbox is a good idea but I'd even consider putting a lock on the room itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Is he sort of, Al Gore, putting Barack Obama in what some might call a lockbox by saying, 10 years, only clean energy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2008] Reference

Thank goodness the government has all that money stashed away in what Al Gore called a lockbox to make up the difference!.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference

He must have used the word "lockbox" about 20 times.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Gore and Bush Face Off in Their First Presidential Debate - October 3, 2000] Reference

That's why Al Gore's "lockbox" never made any sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Federal Debt Is Not Created Equal] Reference

Neither this nor Rush's "lockbox" threatn any actual testicles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is this offensive?] Reference

There is no social security "lockbox", just a file cabinet in Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Kerry Listening?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Remember the "lockbox" that would save future revenues for Social Security?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Money And The Gop] Reference

Steven Pearlstein: Even if the proceeds were put in a "lockbox" for deficit reduction?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pearlstein: On tax fight, Obama can't afford to lose] Reference

The "lockbox" principle between Social Security and the overall budget will have been erased forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Obama's "Tax Holiday": A Poison Pill for Social Security] Reference

Remember how the media laughed at Al Gore when he talked about putting Social Security in a "lockbox"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Scammed: What Shirley Sherrod and Social Security Have in Common] Reference

If we had Al Gore's much mocked "lockbox" preventing raids of the SS fund we wouldn't even be talking about this.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Tepper Marlin: The Growing Price of U.S. Debt] Reference

The election-year obsession with a "lockbox" to protect Social Security "made me tear my hair out," says Kennelly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: Image And Social Security] Reference

Overall, my sense is that this chapter seems very consistent with my "lockbox" model of Social Security privatization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social SecurityAnalysis, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

So here's the rub, it's not actually there, it was used for general revenue remember Gore's "lockbox" plan to social security?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soil-ed Green: I voted FOR it before I voted AGAINST it] Reference

And the "lockbox" is open: Bush's budget, unlike Bill Clinton's last few, uses payroll-tax (Social Security) money for other purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next Beltway Battle] Reference

You do recall Al Gore running for Election promising a "lockbox", right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories] Reference

If there was truly a "lockbox" on government programs, like Social Security fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

Remember Al Gore's "lockbox," the one he was going to use to protect Social Security?.    From Wordnik.com.  [GlobalResearch.ca]

(Yeah ... that 'lockbox' we loved to laugh at in 2000 looks awfully good right now, huh?).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Turks] Reference

Maybe if congress hadn't raided the "lockbox" for decades, they wouldn't be in such bad shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Security "lockbox" and his and following administrations have been robbing from it ever since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

The only items to be found in Al Gore's infamous "lockbox" are IOUs from past administrations and Congresses.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"lockbox" legislation would not add a single day to the life of Social Security.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Sheet On Making Progress On Priority Issues For America] Reference

The lockbox provision was first reported in the Real Deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuomo Reviews New Apthorp Deals] Reference

I think we need to put Medicare and Social Security in a lockbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Gore and Bush Face Off in Their First Presidential Debate - October 3, 2000] Reference

BLITZER: But has he put Barack Obama in a renewable energy lockbox?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2008] Reference

And, yes, I think he's putting Barack Obama in an energy lockbox here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2008] Reference

KARL: But the whole dispute over the lockbox is gone for now at least.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2001] Reference

Mr. Marin said the lockbox is typical of debt-restructuring agreements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuomo Reviews New Apthorp Deals] Reference

I will keep Social Security in a lockbox, and that pays down the national debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Gore and Bush Face Off in Their First Presidential Debate - October 3, 2000] Reference

We held each other in sweaty bipartisanship, shades drawn, hotel room our lockbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eff the Vote] Reference

QUESTION: Senator, I believe it was in this room that you first unveiled the lockbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2001] Reference

Al Gore will put Medicare in an iron-clad lockbox where politicians can't raid it or cut it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Democratic National Convention: Democratic Party's Liberal Wing Gets a Chance to Speak Out - August 15, 2000] Reference

I'd be interested to see if he would this evening say that he would put Medicare in a lockbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Gore and Bush Face Off in Their First Presidential Debate - October 3, 2000] Reference