Benson Fairow Quotes

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

My highest priority is the safety of all Oregonians and their communities.

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.

The safety of the American people has got to be our number one priority. That is our most important problem.

If I do nothing else, I'm going to make this a safe state.

Government's first responsibility is the safety of its citizens.

Opinions lose their immunity when the circumstances in which they are expressed are such as to constitute their expression a positive instigation to some mischievous act

Speech is an essential mechanism of democracy, for it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people. [...] The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it. [...] By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each.

The fact of the matter is that the most important responsibility a bar owner has is public safety and the safety of the people in it.

We're not going to take the risk when it comes to the safety of the American people. No longer.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.

Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks.

Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed police officers become strangely commonplace after awhile.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

The safety of the people is the first and foremost responsibility of government… We are not as prepared as we should be with our public safety network…. The margin for error is exceedingly and uniquely low.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.

Every society has a right to preserve public peace and order, and therefore has a good right to prohibit the propagation of opinions which have a dangerous tendency.