Quotes About Protection

The notion that one's home is one's castle and you can pull up the drawbridge is not one that people in public policy circles believe in.

Public safety and emergency preparedness is essential.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Public safety is a public health issue.

While encryption protects against cyberattacks, deploying it in warrant-proof form jeopardizes public safety more generally.

Kentucky's first responders and fire fighters are true public servants who keep our communities safe.

My first book, 'Nadirs,' was very important for me. I'll leave its literary worth for others to judge. But its publication in Berlin in 1984 gave me protection. As did the awards it won. The Romanian secret police could no longer treat me and my friends as though we were completely cut off from the rest of the world. And we no longer felt cut off.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.

I'd take a bullet for just about anyone! If someone pulled out a gun, I'd step in front of you even though I've never met you.

Let me put it this way, if you were drowning, you wouldn't really be in a place to lend a hand as far as being rescued. You'd be at the mercy of the lifeguard. Once pulled out, you may be a little out of it, not sure where you are, but safe nonetheless.

Even though there will be times when I'll need to protect myself - there will definitely be times when I'll have to put up my guard just to monitor what comes in and out of my life - there's a grace there... no pun intended!

You come to me and punch me in my face I'm going to protect myself.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

My whole career, I got a lot of credit for not taking punches.

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

I try to be as smart as I can with being a defensive fighter, where I don't as much punishment.

We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.