“We have to find ways in which, collectively, we agree there's some things that government needs to do to help protect us, that in this age of non-state actors who can amass great power, I want my government - and I think the German people should want their government - to be able to find out if a terrorist organization has access to a weapon of mass destruction that might go off in the middle of Berlin.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantNeedsShouldStatesHelpingGovernmentMightAgeAbleActorsMiddleProtectWeaponsMassDestructionOrganizationAgreeAccessTerroristBerlinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionGreat Power Author:Barack Obama
“Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.” PeopleIfsTryingAbleHurtOur LivesInformationProtectPercentFinanceDataOur SocietyTelephonesConstraintsPersonal Information Author:Barack Obama
“Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and moral precepts differently than if you're a professor, or a business person, or a dad. And if I were not comfortable with the judicious use of our military to protect the American people, than I shouldn't have run for president. And having said that, I do think that the wisdom of a [Martin Luther] King or a [Mahatma] Gandhi can inform my decisions.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsSaidUseRunningJobsPresidentDecisionMoralMilitaryKingsDadProtectComfortableTestsEthicalProfessorsLutherBusiness Person Author:Barack Obama
“We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.” PeopleGivingRightsProtectGiving UpBasesTerrorismScare Author:Edward Snowden
“The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent that shows that transgender people who are incarcerated should be provided with these medically necessary procedures. In cases where they're not, it is considered a violation of those rights.” PeopleShouldShowsBodyCasesGrowingRightsCitizensProtectConstitutionPunishmentUnusualAmendmentsProceduresViolationTransgenderPrecedentCruel And Unusual Punishment Author:Allyson Robinson
“On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.” PeopleDreamNationsLeaderTrumpKingsProtectRainWeekendDrsSaturdayLutherIcyInaugurationDr Martin Luther King Author:Al Sharpton
“I think it's very realistic to think we could provide additional protection for renters because for many people - renting is now the only option. It is also entirely necessary if we are to protect Londoners from rapidly rising rents.” PeopleIfsThinkingProtectProtectionRisingRealisticLondoners Author:David Lammy
“As much as people try to pit black entertainers against one another, because of the underlying feeling that there can't be two of us, or, all of us can't do well. That's what hurts rap the most, the fact that none of us are fighting to protect the door of those who run our industry. It's enough money for all of us.” PeopleTryingWellsTwoEnoughFactsFeelingsRunningFightingBlackHurtDoorsIndustryProtectRapPitsEntertainersTwo Of Us Author:David Banner
“We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in the right way. They're not from or neighborhoods and communities so of course they can't truly relate to our experience. It's our responsibility to properly protect our people and to properly give them opportunities for employment.” PeopleWayGivingCultureCoursesOpportunityCommunityResponsibilityProtectEmploymentRelateNeighborhoodExpectingRight WayBegging Author:David Banner
“Kids need love and kids are not getting enough love in America because kids haven't been going the right way. We need to protect families by allowing same-sex couples to get married and also we need to protect religious freedoms because, in this country we allow people to practice religion or not practice religion.” PeopleWayNeedsCountryEnoughKidsAmericaSexReligiousPracticeHavensCoupleProtectMarriedAllowingRight WayReligious FreedomNeed LoveEnough Love Author:Brendon Ayanbadejo
“We have to know people who are outside of our own circle, we have to reach out to people we don't know, we have to protect people who are in tremendous danger. And we also have to not get burned out and let our fear and anxiety and depression sink us. So there's lots of things we have to do right now!” PeopleKnowsDangerRight NowProtectAnxietyCirclesReach OutBurnedBurned Out Author:Eve Ensler
“I'm not convinced that the people of Arizona as a nation couldn't do better to protect equal rights for all than the people of Arizona as part of the United States, which is actually not helping them much.” PeopleStatesHelpingNationsUnitedUnited StatesRightsProtectEqualConvincedEqual RightsArizona Author:David Swanson
“Once you have an equalization instrument in place, as you have in Canada, there arise tremendous bureaucratic values - bureaucratic rent so to speak - in maintaining the system that you have. To shift to a system that paid the transfers directly to individuals, by having differential rates of federal income tax levied to adjust to provincial fiscal capacities, which would be my preference, you would have huge bureaucratic opposition. People would try to protect the rents they have in the current system of institutions.” PeopleTryingWould BeValuesIndividualSpeakHugeProtectTaxesCapacityPaidInstitutionsInstrumentsRateCurrentsIncomeAriseCanadaOppositionPreferenceMaintainingTransfersIncome Tax Author:James M. Buchanan
“The Constitution is brilliant for accountability; for posing factions against each other, to fight amongst themselves in government, which protects our liberty. But also in ensuring that decision-making is made by those who the people can hold accountable.” PeopleMadeGovernmentFightingDecisionLibertyProtectConstitutionBrilliantDecision MakingAccountabilityFactionsPosing Author:Ted Cruz
“One of the reasons why I've written The Challenge for Africa is to save it. Surely there are so many problems we can solve in Africa, but first and foremost, we need a government that feels responsible to protect their own people from the exploitations, from the misuse, from the mistreatment that they can easily get.” PeopleNeedsFeelsFirstsReasonProblemGovernmentChallengesWrittenProtectResponsibleSolveReason WhyExploitationMisuseMistreatment Author:Wangari Maathai
“I think some dogs may like the attention of being dressed up by their humans because they interpret it as affection, but unless it's something that you've made the dog used to from the time it was a puppy, it's probably going to always feel a little weird and unnatural to the dog. This doesn't mean I think people should never dress their dogs up as long as they do it for the right reasons. If you're putting booties and a coat on your dog to protect it from the weather, then that's a pretty legitimate reason.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsShouldHumansMayMeanLittlesLongMadeReasonUsedAttentionDogProtectDressesAffectionWeatherCoatsUnnaturalPuppyDressed UpBooty Author:Cesar Millan
“Our countries are weaker: they cannot protect us from imported goods, they can't protect us from climate change, they cannot protect us from epidemics. These things cross borders. But the kind of cooperation that would protect us from those things was completely lacking and because of this there's been a backlash. People feel vulnerable.” PeopleFeelsKindCountryProtectCrossesClimateClimate ChangeOur CountryVulnerableBordersGoodsCooperationLackingEpidemicsBacklash Author:Mohsin Hamid
“We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this attempt to protect ourselves is ultimately going to founder because people don't like living inside prisons.” PeopleThinkingRightsSubjectsAmountProtectPolicePrisonIncrediblesFoundersSurveillanceDraconian Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsTwoCountryStatesTurnsCultureChristUnitedPartyHalfUnited StatesCoupleThousandProtectGunYears AgoThirdsPopulationUsaExpectingThousand YearsGun Culture Author:Noam Chomsky
“How are people who are young and look like Oscar [Grant] portrayed in the media? You gotta think about that. And somebody given a badge and a gun and told to go police in those communities, all of a sudden they got to protect and serve and talk to people they never even spent time with [and] they might have formed opinions about.” PeopleThinkingLooksMightYoungGivenCommunityOpinionMediaProtectGunPoliceGrantsOscarsBadgesProtect And Serve Author:Michael B. Jordan
“I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable (a major preoccupation in scripture). But this is an old and difficult question and very wise people take different views.” PeopleMayDifferentWarSometimesActionDifficultViewsTakenWiseProtectMajorsWeakPoliceScriptureVulnerableJustifiedPreoccupationVery WiseWise PeopleDifferent ViewsDifficult Questions Author:N. T. Wright
“The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents from the Communist bloc. They did not envision the mass displacements of people we are seeing today.” PeopleMindWarTodaySeeingColdThousandProtectMassCommunistConventionsCold WarRefugeeDisplacementDissidents Author:Kofi Annan
“I am on the side of pluralistic societies, and I will do whatever I can - by the best means available and any means necessary - to protect spaces that encourage open communication between people.” PeopleMeanI CanSidesSpaceCommunicationProtectAvailableOpen Communication Author:Marc Ribot
“I'm worried about people who say George W. Bush is lying. It's much more frightening that he's not lying, that he believes what he believes: that it's his mission to change the Middle East into a democracy. That's more unnerving. We'd be better off if the whole purpose of the adventure in Iraq was, say, to protect Israel or to protect the flow of oil to America and keep it at a reasonable price and try to get some more control. If it was about oil, going into Iraq, I guess, could have made sense.” PeopleTryingBelieveLyingPurposeDemocracyAdventureProtectWorriedFrightening Author:Seymour Hersh
“I think that, generally, when it's a white male shooting, then it's mental illness is the first thing that they utilize after reporting the crime. But in this instance, a Muslim, it's always terrorism. So it's always a direct attack towards Muslims, who are American citizens, and as well as other individuals who are here who believe in their faith. And we find that we are now in a position again of trying to protect ourselves, and, again, in some instances, causing people to become more sequestered in their day-to-day lives.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveIndividualCrimeProtectDirectIllnessTerrorismMental Illness Author:Daayiee Abdullah
“I mean, you know, there's a lot of talk about tolerance in the country today having to do with people on the left. And Indiana steps forward to protect the constitutional rights and privileges of freedom of religion for people of faith and families of faith in our state and this avalanche of intolerance that's been poured on our state is just outrageous.” PeopleMeanCountryTodayProtectToleranceIntoleranceFreedom Of Religion Author:Mike Pence
“There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: "struggle is the highest form of song". I love that. We are in the struggle. It's like a river. Once you step into it you become the river. It's not, you go out and click on a couple of charities that you believe in, march in the Women's March, and you're done. Struggle becomes your life, transforming a paradigm that is based on domination into a paradigm of co-operation. Fighting for the liberation of women, of people of color, of indigenous people, of lgbtq communities. Fighting to protect immigrants and assuring the safety of refugees.” PeopleBelieveDoneBeautifulSongFightingCommunityStruggleCoupleProtectSafetyCharityLiberationMarchRefugeeDominationIndigenousParadigmIndigenous People Author:Eve Ensler
“Idea of holding each other’s hands at the Women’s March—it feels like we are being invited to do that every day. So many of us are feeling attacked, whether it’s a woman’s right to choose or headstones in a Jewish cemetery, immigrants being deported or banned. So many of us feel the need to protect and defend our democracy. And march toward the dream of being “We the people.” So that’s exciting, scary, and frustrating. We’re awake. We are awake more than ever before, and we have to stay awake.” PeopleFeelingsDreamDemocracyProtectExcitingScaryAwakeMarchFrustratingCemetery Author:Kerry Washington
“The story of my life has been of public interest, which is why I've been so passionate about having a private identity. When I step into a character, people have to be able to suspend their disbelief; they have to be able to divorce me from Hermiona. And not having everyone know every single intimate detail of my entire life is part of me trying to protect my ability to do my job well.” PeopleTryingCharacterInterestAbilityIdentityProtectPassionateDivorceIntimateDisbeliefStory Of My Life Author:Emma Watson
“Social media, it's a minefield! Technology is moving so fast right now. Everyone is scrambling around trying to understand what it means to have an avatar, how to live our lives on the internet, what it means for privacy, for citizens of a political universe. I think that we're trying to find rules now, as we speak, and it's difficult. But, like everything, the internet is an incredibly powerful force that needs governing - not to restrict our freedom, but to protect people.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanMovingPoliticalUniverseSpeakDifficultPowerfulTechnologyInternetProtectSocial MediaPrivacy Author:Emma Watson
“The friendship that you create between you and a mom - or you and an older woman figure - is so important and so influential. I think that my relationship with my sister, my relationship with my best friends - when I'm feeling really terrible about myself, they're always there to let me know that I am being dramatic about something, or I'm being stupid about something - it's good to have those kinds of people to drag you back down and protect you.” PeopleThinkingKindImportantFeelingsStupidMomTerribleProtectLet MeDramaticMy SisterMy Best FriendInfluentialOlder WomenBeing Stupid Author:Rowan Blanchard
“There is just something that people taught me in general for self-care, would just be to spend some time alone and to protect yourself. Learning to say no is something that helps in that, and what you're comfortable with and what you're not comfortable with, and finding the line. That's it. Otherwise it's just going to be really hard.” PeopleHelpingProtectMe AloneProtect Yourself Author:Rowan Blanchard
“The system has evolved to protect parties from people like Donald Trump. It really is true that people without well-established public records, without proven capability in public service, without tested beliefs and at least apparently under the influence of a foreign power, such people are screened out by major parties.” PeopleBeliefPartyInfluenceProtectCapabilityPublic Service Author:David Frum
“There's something about the weekend, even for non-religious people, that feels sacred, so a violation of that sanctified time is almost a betrayal, something blasphemous. The sabbath is the edict to break from work. It was God's call-out to the slave to protect an identity beyond labourer - no production and consumption, just one day a week.” PeopleBreakWeekIdentityOne DayProtectSlaveBetrayalWeekendSabbath Author:Katrina Onstad
“Give us back our tax dollars that we pay for police who do not serve nor protect. Then maybe we can educate our people, make them a better people and make our community a more decent and safe place to live.” PeopleGivingCommunityProtectTaxesPoliceDecentEducate Author:Louis Farrakhan
“And one of the things that I'm most concerned about is the confidence, the confidentiality of those kind of meetings between President and Russian Foreign Minister, as you know, are extremely important. And so, I am really concerned about kind of leaks, because it undermines everybody's trust in that kind of an environment where you can have frank, candid, and often times unconventional conversations to try to protect American interests and secure the American people.” PeopleTryingKindImportantPresidentInterestEnvironmentProtectConcernedMeetingsFrank Author:H. R. McMaster
“Each of us spends money on things that we do not really need. You could take the money you're spending on those unnecessary things and give it to this organization the Against Malaria Foundation which would take the money you had given and use it to buy nets to protect children. And we know reliably that if we provide nets, they're used, and they reduce the number of children dying from malaria. Fortunately more and more people are understanding this idea, and the result is a growing movement effective altruism.” PeopleGivingChildrenUnderstandingDyingProtectUnnecessaryAltruism Author:Peter Singer
“We're wealthy people. We're sitting here in New York, Washington. We live in a fantastically wealthy country. We don't have to worry about food. We don't have to worry about clothing. We wore the same shirt. We don't have to worry about our safety. It's very easy for us to be environmentalists. It's very easy for me to be an environmentalist. It's very easy for me to care about making sure that we protect the forests and the whales, and all that stuff. It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.” PeopleCountryCareEasyWorryEnvironmentProtectSafetyShirtsWealthyEnvironmentalist Author:Ian Bremmer
“Let me tell you, we're still the best country on earth and we're going to take care of our people and we're going to protect this country and the people here.” PeopleCountryCareEarthProtectLet MeTake CareBest Country Author:Joe Manchin
“The Second Amendment is in the Constitution to help citizens protect themselves from people like Senator Dianne Feinstein who would come along, and if they could determine what words you can and cannot say, where and where you can't say them. The Constitution is there to protect you from mayors like Mike Doomberg who wants to tell you how big your beverage can be.” PeopleHelpingProtectConstitutionDetermineSecond Amendment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This is what democracy is all about. People have every right to protest whoever's in the White House, without fear of persecution. If this happened in Iran, people would be shot on the streets. This is the United States of America, and we have a First Amendment that protects this kind of speech.” PeopleKindHouseDemocracyProtectProtestPersecutionFirst Amendment Author:Michael McCaul
“Obama found a lot of people that think just like he does, and he put them in the intelligence community. Can you imagine? When you think of the intelligence community, don't you think of super patriots, don't you think of people out there even risking their lives to defend and protect the Constitution and the people of this country and this country itself as founded? No. That's not the kind of people Obama put at the CIA.” PeopleThinkingKindCountryCommunityImagineProtectConstitutionPatriotCia Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We haven't been leading anybody. We've been acquiescing to a bunch of linguini-spined leftists all over the world, at the United Nations, in NATO, wherever it is. The people who don't even pay for their own defense. The people that don't even believe in guns and bullets to protect yourself are the people we have been acquiescing to. And they think this is called leadership. Leadership is sponsoring America's decline. Leadership is administering America's decline. Leadership is admitting that America's superpower status was never deserved or warranted.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveProtectGunUnited NationsSuperpowerNatoProtect Yourself Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People need to get involved in their neighborhood groups and the many housing reform groups that are out there. We need to hold our elected officials accountable and push them to create legislation that protects tenants and keeps people in their homes. Our governments - local, state and federal - also need to allocate resources to enforce the fair housing laws that are already on the books.” PeopleBookHomeProtectNeighborhoodGet Involved Author:Solly Granatstein
“It is a little bit difficult to talk about things that do involve classified matters in public. But I think the public needs to know that there are multiple oversight layers, including the FISA Court, congressional oversight, internal oversight within the FBI and intelligence community, that protects Americans from - under - their - their privacy rights while targeting terrorists and people who are trying to kill us.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifficultCommunityProtectTerroristPrivacyMultipleFbi Author:James Comey
“I've always argue against emotions. You're seeing intimidating threats against anchors by people in the Trump campaign. You see physical violence at rallies, you see a man handling of a reporter, Michelle Fields. You have Trump talking about opening this liberal law - these libel laws to protect feelings. What you're seeing here is kind of a mob mentality.” PeopleMenKindFeelingsEmotionViolenceProtectThreatArguingMentalityIntimidating Author:Eric Bolling
“I still remember how upset I was in the aftermath of President Obama's election, where people in Republican leadership didn't say that, "Hey, I want to focus on the issues and values of our country," but, "My number one goal is to see that Barack Obama is not a two term president." That to me is outrageous. I would never do that. My number one goal is to fight to protect poor people, ethnic and religious minorities, working class folks.” PeopleCountryRememberValuesFightingGoalPresidentTermReligiousPoorFocusRepublicanProtectElectionBarackUpsetPresident ObamaWorking ClassPoor People Author:Cory Booker
“It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.” PeopleMindArtistProtectVulnerableJournalistHuman MindHuman Body Author:Salman Rushdie
“I love secrets. Here's a bunch of people who think they know each other over a long period of time. And they do. And they don't. Secrets aren't the same thing as shame, but they can fall in that category. I'm very interested in the ways that people are open and honest with one another and simultaneously in hiding. What we know about those we love is only part of the story. Who do we protect with our secrets? Others? Ourselves? These are questions that interest me in fiction. The public and the private self.” PeopleThinkingLongFallInterestLove IsSecretHonestProtectShameHiding Author:Victoria Redel