Safety Quotes - Page 34

• We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.

  Mike Johanns

  Issues, Attention, Paramount

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.

  Margaret Spellings

  Workplace, Workplace Safety, Knows

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Opportunity, Our Society, Workplace

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• Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

  Mary Douglas

  Two, Years, Community

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• Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.

  Tim Bishop

  Hard Work, Important, Enforcement

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• These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives.

  Charles Bass

  Children, Independent, College

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• Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

  Patricia Heaton

  Running, Kids, Men

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• The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.

  Eric Braeden

  Mother, Father, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, School, Law

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• The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

  Ron Chernow

  Workplace, Argument, Mutual Fund

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• We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.

  Marc Garneau

  Space, Roles, Tools

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• What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.

  Peter Mandelson

  Jobs, Home, Europe

  "Interview: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Teacher, Children, School

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• It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

  Nigel Farage

  School, Green, Regulation

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• Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.

  Judd Gregg

  Community, Banking, Protection

  "Financial Regulatory Reform: Washington 'Going Stupid' Again?". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2010.

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• We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

  Robert Greenwald

  Cutting, Risk, Profit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs have poured millions into lobbyists' coffers and political contributions to ensure their bottom line stays unchanged by the most basic safety precaution.

  Robert Greenwald

  Brother, People, Political

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• People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Sacrifice, People, Important

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new Canadian oil sands are being developed 'in situ,' meaning, it has a similar carbon footprint and emissions as conventional oil wells.

  John Hoeven

  Strong, Technology, Carbon Footprint

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• During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound.

  Russel Honore

  Block, Safe And Sound, People

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

  Derek Jacobi

  People, Comfort, Modern Life

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• My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

  Edmund Burke

  Good Friend, Men, Self

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.212

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• My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.

  Max Barry

  Intelligent, Brain, Intelligence

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• Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.

  Poul Anderson

  Mean, Men, Space

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• In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fire, Massachusetts, Littles

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