Maria Ressa Quotes

I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

Pray that we can come out alive.

Security will produce danger.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

I think war is a dangerous place.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.

I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.

The amount of our danger, therefore, it would be impolitic to conceal from the people. It was the first duty of ministers to make it known, and after doing so, it should have been their study to provide against it, and to point out the means to the country by which it might be averted.

Don’t taunt the alligator until after you have crossed the creek.