Grace VanderWaal Quotes

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

If somebody is disrespecting somebody, we should step in - even at the risk of getting slugged over the head.

I don't think anybody should be subject to any sort of harassment in any way, shape, or form.

He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.

I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.

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.

My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

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

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to bullies.

The American people do not want to be blown up. Anything that prevents the American people from being blown up is all right with the American people.

Peace is security.

I was hired to stop the killing.

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

Security and peace are not cheap.

Arms are dangerous instruments and not necessarily forged for good. How can we safely entrust them to any but those who have schooled themselves in the precepts of the Classics and can use these weapons for the realization of Humanity and Righteousness? To quell violence and disorder, to repulse barbarians and brigands, to rescue living souls from agony and torture, to save the nation from imminent downfall-these are the true ends of Humanity and Righteousness.

I used to get off the bus, and there'd be a crowd around, you know, and I was thinking, 'God, I hope this is not for me.' And it normally was, and it was because someone said something to my sister, and the first she says is, 'Well, I'll get my brother.'