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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
The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets. -- Bernie Sanders
Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully. -- Siri Hustvedt
People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks. -- Kunal Nayyar
Lightened body armor, which the military has made progress on, would mean increased safety and reduced risk for soldiers like the sergeant and the colonel. -- Niki Tsongas
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction. -- Guy Verhofstadt
Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability. -- Claron McFadden
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
If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family. -- Donna Reed
One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk. -- Ron Fournier
If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net. -- Steve Wynn
I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety. -- Gordon Bethune
By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight? -- Burt Rutan
Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
We're not going to take the risk when it comes to the safety of the American people. No longer. -- Donald Trump
Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall. -- Andy Kennedy
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. -- bell hooks
Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety. -- Park Dietz
There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief. -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well. -- Phil Klay
Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted. -- Jerome F. Lederer
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk of being less free. -- Alexander Hamilton

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