Quotes About Risk

Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.

If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.

I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.

Contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.

The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

The probability that we will get into a car accident is a million times higher than the probability we will suffer as a result of terrorist act.

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

Obama and his Democrat allies in Congress have proven they will use bait-and-switch tactics to move more unvetted refugees into our communities. This will inevitably put our nation and our citizens at risk for future terrorist attacks.

In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.

To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.

With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone.

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

As the head of security for an airline, I can't ask my passengers to risk their lives and jump on a terrorist. This is why we need air marshals on every flight.

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

I believe we need to ensure there are no refugees placed in Arizona with connections to terrorist organizations.

If you look at the terrorist attacks around the world, they're in places where there is no security - a club or a movie theater or wherever.

By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.

This is a big debate concerning the values of the society in question: Whether the risk of a terrorist act is more important than the 100 percent right to privacy.

We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack.

In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely know what they're talking about.

They only have to be right one time, the terrorists do, and we have to be wrong one time.