Keith Henson Quotes

Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them.

When we protect our children in their schools or on our streets, we are living up to our obligations - obligations which we should take solemnly.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.

We must do everything we can to ensure the safety of our children.

When you look the wrong way to cross the street, you've got to be careful with it.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.

I think everybody knows they have to be vigilant with their children. I don't have anything profound to say on that subject. We all know that we have to watch the children. The question is when does it become absolute paranoia?

If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kids wandered around. Nobody knew what you were doing.

If I had kids, I'd probably be way over-protective, researching everything they begged to see to make sure the content was appropriate.

No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.

Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.

I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I'm already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be.

In the '70s, there were economists who argued that seat belts were causing people to drive faster and kill more pedestrians. But after 15 or 20 years of research, we can now conclude that's actually not true. Seat belts, on net, do make people safer. So, on an evidence-based process, we should have people wear seat belts.

I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.

Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

We have bills that make it impossible for children to get into an aspirin bottle. Do my colleagues not think that we should do the same thing with a gun.

The last thing our children need is less protection.