Quotes About Safety

A bridge shouldn't just fall down in the middle of America. Not a bridge that's a few blocks from my house. Not an eight-lane highway. Not a bridge that I drive over with my family every day, along with tens of thousands of Minnesotans. But that's what happened.

Proactive policing has saved tens of thousands of minority lives since the mid-1990s.

For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.

We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.

People find birdsong relaxing and reassuring because over thousands of years, they have learnt when the birds sing, they are safe; it's when birds stop singing that people need to worry.

Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against.

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

The real threat comes from terrorism.

COVID-19 is a serious public health threat.

There's a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

Bio-terrorism is a threat.

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

Pilots are not the threat.

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while thanking our military is standard practice in American life, no one thinks of thanking the FBI, the CIA, or the rest of the intelligence community for keeping us safe since 9/11.

Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated - food, sharp edges, poor wiring.

The public interest is not always the same as the national interest. Going to war with people who are not our enemy in places that are not a threat doesn't make us safe, and that applies whether it's in Iraq or on the Internet. The Internet is not the enemy. Our economy is not the enemy.

Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.

No state should have to endure the threat of terrorists entering our borders.

Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.

The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, whether the threat is a domestic one or from abroad.

The misguided efforts of some members of Congress to revive Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Nevadans, and our national security.