#threat

Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen. ↗

— Bill Frist

#america #before #beyond #deal #focus

Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear. ↗

— Bill Frist

#citizens #clear #cornerstone #critically #crystal

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future? ↗

— David R. Gergen

#heaven #how #much #name #nation

Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#attacks #been #communities #enactment #enforcement

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#ago #caused #cute #died #ever

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral. ↗

— James Larkin

#danger #duty #faults #funeral #go

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#conventional #electronica #music #people #play

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. ↗

— David Mamet

#ratify #terrifying #threaten #us #which

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine. ↗

— Walter Martin

#may #medicine #now #soul #success

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism. ↗