Risking Quotes

While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain. - Ed Pastor

When you raise both feet off the ground in a tackle these days, you are facing trouble. I think, especially away from home, when you lift your feet and launch yourself at someone you are risking everything. That's the game today. - Graeme Souness

We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us. - Guy Laliberte

Welcome to the exciting world of hurricane journalism! While your highly paid colleagues on the anchor desk are broadcasting from the dry safety of a heavily fortified television studio, you and your camera crew will be out in the maw of the storm, risking your lives for no good reason. - Carl Hiaasen

We will continue pushing until they give us papers to work in this country legally. We'll continue pushing so that we don't have to continue paying thousands of dollars to come into this country, risking our lives and facing so many dangers to cross the border, just so that we can work. - Luis Ibarra

We were told the insurance would pay 80 to 100 percent of medical expenses for catastrophic illnesses. When both of us were hit with catastrophes within one nine-month period, we were left hanging with $180,000 in unpaid medical debts. The insurance paid less than 15 percent. And we worry that others like us will end up risking their health, and their lives, because of costs. - David Henderson

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways. - John Desmond Bernal

We seem to be continuing to defy these natural limits of the economic cycle and we should be able to push forward at a decent pace in the second half without risking inflation. - Carl Tannenbaum

We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation. - Mike Pence