Quotes About Prevention

If you just go around and identify all of the disasters and say, 'What caused that?' and try to avoid it, it turns out to be a very simple way to find opportunities and avoid troubles.

Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?

understood that the actual reason courtrooms often have no windows is to prevent the parties from heaving lawyers out of them.

one of the leader's most valuable but least valued contributions is avoiding trouble, not addressing it once it's occurred).

Education is important, but we're to the point where almost everyone knows they shouldn't drink and drive. The people who are still doing it are choosing to do it. The most effective way to deal with them is to arrest them.

For whatever reason, speed enforcement in the U.S. is a bigger deal than elsewhere in the world. In Europe, police seem to be more concerned about preventing accidents and less consumed with the passion to write speeding tickets.

The obvious tactic for avoiding alcohol-precipitated crashes is to avoid riding after drinking. And that's a decision you have to make before your judgment is impaired.

And if I'd found you lying there in the sun, and left you? What would you call that if not murder? --- It's not the same, Cain mutters. --- Is to me. A man who witnesses a death without trying to prevent it is as responsible for the man who causes it.

Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man.

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids decision not to drink alcohol.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

If I start to feel run-down or like I'm going to get sick, I know I need sleep - stat. I can sometimes keep a sickness at bay with a good night's sleep!

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.

Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented.

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.

For a government of any party, and for every one of us, even one suicide is worrisome.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.