Quotes About Threat

One of the major conclusions of the 9/11 Commission is that there were enormous security vulnerabilities in our immigration system. 9/11, in that sense, really begins the effort of our country to try to shore up our immigration system to deal with this very complex and very far-reaching threat.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Trust me: our critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attack, to potential terrorist attack, and we are not taking this threat seriously enough.

Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves.

The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.

Lead levels exceeding federal thresholds pose a serious public health threat, particularly for more vulnerable populations.

We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

Our own civilization has lost its way, and this makes us even more vulnerable to Islamist nihilism.

The U.S. government is actually exceptionally vulnerable.

President Trump's threat to weaponize federal funding is not only unconstitutional but emblematic of the cruelty he seeks to impose on our most vulnerable communities.

Stand Your Ground laws make all of us more vulnerable to the threat of gun violence, but they also have a disproportionate impact on communities of color.

Such a thing as ending unemployment would never occur to Washington politicians because their corporate backers depend on the threat of unemployment to keep wages down.

When you're standing in line at the airport, and your shoes are off, your belt is off, and your personal belongings are being closely scrutinized, and you're standing with your hands in the air, waiting to be patted down, do you feel protected? I don't. I feel like I'm the enemy.

Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.

Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.

When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at the time, like grooming, feeding, walking, or courting. Our experiments showed that the fly somehow 'knows' whether it needs to make large or small postural changes to reach the correct preflight posture.

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.

If there is one Osama bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterwards.

It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here.

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

I think we could very easily suffer a seriously catastrophic cyber event.