Imperil Quotes

You don't feel you have a safe city if you've got these things going on. It seems every other day you're reading in the paper about a murder in Oakland. It doesn't imperil the average resident, but it does damage the perception of safety and the reputation of the Police Department, not to mention creating havoc in the lives of the families affected. - Don Link

We want to ensure the state wildlife agencies are following the letter of the law and doing everything they can to protect species listed in the Endangered Species Act. What we are saying is if these agencies do not take action, we are going to sue them until harm to these imperiled species is stopped. - Camilla Fox

This bill takes a wrecking ball to our nation's most important wildlife protection law. The Endangered Species Act is the safety net for America's imperiled plants and animals. The Republican dominated House of Representatives have ripped it apart, consigning God's creation to extinction. - Kieran Suckling

The standard in the statute hasn't changed in the last week -- it's 'imperil the national health and safety' -- and we monitor the strike conditions and the economic conditions to see if that standard has been met. So far it has not. - Mike McCurry

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. - Ida B. Wells

The San Francisco garter snake is very imperiled, and we're just making progress on getting them back. - Al Donner

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action. - Albert Einstein

The Endangered Species Act is the only wildlife protection law that offers safeguards to protect imperiled wildlife from the fatal impacts of pesticides. Other laws only punish the offender after the damage is done. - Jamie Rappaport Clark