Quotes About Prevention

Our challenge is to stop people from driving drunk. Punishing them afterwards doesn't bring back the victim or make the family feel better. The idea is to stop the DWI before it happens.

Unfortunately, in Nevada - and more specifically, in Las Vegas and Reno - we've experienced incidents of human trafficking. In Las Vegas, the average trafficking victim is as young as 14. We must act to prevent this disturbing criminal activity from occurring in our communities.

In preventing a riot and dispersing a crowd, the Crucifixion is an example of cathartic victimization.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.

We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another.

As a prosecutor, I saw firsthand how VAWA has made a difference in the lives of women and girls by ensuring an aggressive response to domestic violence, boosting victims' services, and enhancing efforts to prevent and prosecute these horrible crimes.

I'm not asking victims to change their behavior. I'm asking perpetrators not to commit crimes.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

Poetry is history to be protected, lessons to be learned, a path to change our society or prevent its demise.

When addiction runs in your family, you can't take chances. You can't try it once to see what it's like. One time can be the beginning of something you can't stop.

Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.

My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

To be treated with consideration is, in the case of female travellers, too often synonymous with being prevented from doing what one wants.

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earth-quake-they say Poets never or rarely go mad...but are generally so near it-that I cannot help thinking rhyme is so far useful in anticipating & preventing the disorder.

The more you weigh, the harder you are to kidnap. Stay safe. Eat muffins.

Goodness, think of what trouble they'd be in if Folly hadn't practiced.

Ya te lo dije» preventivos —señalé—. Ahora sí que lo he visto todo.

I'm not a doctor," Butters said. We'd done this dance several times. "You are the Mighty Butters," I said. "You can do anything." "I'm a medical examiner. I cut up corpses." "If it helps, think of this as a preventative autopsy.