Gina Miller Quotes

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

In the age of terror, there is less room for error.

Let the safety of people be the supreme law

It all boils down to the safety of the public. It wasn’t a decision made lightly. This wasn’t about free speech. It was about safety.

When the President is a moralist, he needs a process that will make up for the natural shortcomings of such a style—an inattention to second-step thinking, an allergy to detail, a tendency not to see the point of having dissenters, a habit of allowing certainty to override considerations of risk. It is the National Security Advisor’s responsibility to fill a President’s strategic gaps, not to exacerbate them.

We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.

It's O.K. if you've got a smartphone app or a social network, and you go live with it before it's ready; people aren't going to die. But with medicine, it's different.

You cannot build public policies on sentiment, on panic and fear.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is a reason we call science a discipline! Inferior minds bolt or build pyres to roast the witches in their midst!

He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.

It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

I think security is a big issue for people.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

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

At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer.

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

Nothing can be left until the last minute, so that everyone knows exactly where they are. Everyone is comfortable and everyone feels safe because we want people to be able to keep coming into this show and taking those risks. There are a lot of risks in this show, not just nudity, but emotional risks. We want the best actors to feel comfortable about coming in and exploring this subject matter with us.

THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY.

Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

Some [people] may be "servants of the power structure," but that has to be shown. I think it often can be shown, but the burden of proof is on the critic who puts forth that thesis in particular cases.