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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
I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while. -- Georges Danton
Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction. -- Jane D. Hull
Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck. -- Hilary Mantel
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. -- Gavin Newsom
In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety. -- Jim Ramstad
With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety. -- Bill Schuette
By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in. -- Ron Conway
Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country. -- Roger Wicker
As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health. -- Bob Beauprez
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. -- Gavin Newsom
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. -- Barbara Boxer
Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away. -- Janet Napolitano
Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties. -- Charles Krauthammer
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. -- Calvin Coolidge
We should not be scrimping on investments in public safety. The lack of infrastructure spending is costing us lives in America. It's costing every commuter. -- Cory Booker
Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety. -- Daniel Webster
When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened. -- Laverne Cox
No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private. -- William Blackstone
One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report. [Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.] -- Quintus Ennius
Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety, as long as the public remains passive and obedient. -- Noam Chomsky
[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety. -- Edward Gibbon
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. -- Edward Gibbon
The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake. -- Malcolm Wallop
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology. -- Kamala Harris
I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety. -- Tim Walz
Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services. -- Bill Delahunt
The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. -- Tom Stoppard
I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city. -- Alan Autry
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The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness. -- Mike Pence
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety. -- Jan C. Ting
Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law. -- Barack Obama
In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent. -- Michael Nutter
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2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction. -- Matt Taibbi
Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety. -- Bob Wise
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have no faith in the USA corporate government systems of protection of public health and safety. -- Steven Magee
We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue. -- Sarah Brady
I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue. -- Mandy Patinkin
I feel like Ive got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety. -- Tim Walz
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. -- Ambrose Bierce
As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety. -- Tulip Siddiq
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful. -- Warren Beatty
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. -- Samuel Chase
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . . -- Algernon Sidney
We have discovered with our new information systems that we can make all the appropriate checks and ensure public safety is not dented in any way in a much shorter time frame. -- Robert Carson
The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. -- Calvin Coolidge
My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners. -- Jerry Brown

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