#danger

The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills. ↗

— Peter Welch

#american economy #bills #congress #dangerous #economy

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. ↗

— William Weld

#courts #dangerous #government #least #our

Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#able danger #al #brooklyn #cells #chairman

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#able danger #danger #data #information #now

We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#able danger #because #break #commission #commissioners

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. ↗

— Richard Whately

#avoid #corrupted #danger #exchange #follow

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#assume #context #dangerous #feels #given

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#business #dangerous #duties #equips #future

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#called #dangerous #idea #unworthy

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great. ↗

— William John Wills

#advantages #danger #great #nothing #positive