Protect Quotes - Page 28

• The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

  Ken Livingstone

  Long, Giving, Want

  "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.

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• I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Heart, Able, Failing

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.210, Macmillan

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• The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Country, Years, Law

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• I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Giving, Want

  "Why Annie Lennox is ready to move on". Interview with Shanon Cook, edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2009.

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• I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

  Youssou N'Dour

  My Family, Protect My Family

  "A song and a prayer" by Mark Hudson, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.

  Bob Barr

  Country, Government, Long

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• The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

  David Boies

  Past, Rights, Decision

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• The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Practice, Development, Framework

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• I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone.

  Jim Broadbent

  Hate, Hard Times, Ordinary

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• Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

  Max Beckmann

  Space, Infinity, Depth

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

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• My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.

  Andrew Card

  Children, Secret, Important

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  Camille Claudel

  Say Anything, Want, Protect You

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• If the Bush Administration cannot ensure Americans that they will be safe from the flu, how will they protect our country against a possible bio-terror or chemical attack? The American people deserve better.

  Jon Corzine

  Country, People, Deserve Better

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• We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

  Ken Calvert

  Men, Practice, Tolerance

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• We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians.

  Paul Cellucci

  Country, War, Impact

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• We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

  Peter Chernin

  Giving, Parent, Needs

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• You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don't feel like you're in good hands.

  James Badge Dale

  Hands, People, Actors

  "James Badge Dale Talks IRON MAN 3, His Audition Process, the Character’s Physicality, WORLD WAR Z, THE LONE RANGER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 21, 2013.

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• There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

  Kate Dickie

  Giving, People, Behaviour

  "Kate Dickie: 'I've been angst-ridden all my life'". Interview With Jane Graham, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2010.

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• Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.

  Peter Diamandis

  Agency, Government, Risk

  "Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.

  Christopher Darden

  Selfish, Trials, Realizing

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• We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.

  Vito Fossella

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

  Amy Goodman

  Jobs, Journalist

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• I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

  Lori Greiner

  Ideas, People, Risk

  "Think You Can Pitch? Creatives Break Down Their Art". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 31, 2012.

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• Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

  Shinzo Abe

  Beautiful, Japan, Sea

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• We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.

  Bella Abzug

  Gay, Men, Law

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