Adam Schiff Quotes

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.

Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?

The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

The terrorists are racing and we are moving at somewhere between a walk and a crawl, depending on the day of the week.

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

(to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face!

Let's go, Kitten, before you kill someone else. -Bones

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

Because everything we do and everything we are is in jeopardy, and because the peril is immediate and unremitting, every person is the right person to act and every moment is the right moment to begin.

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

To bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the years to come. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness, and would make the American people less safe.

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

The window is closing.

Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.

Delay always breeds danger.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!