Pat Brown Quotes

Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

Public fear isn't something to be played with.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

I'm just tired of us as Americans living in fear.

I don't want to be going to bed at night thinking that people want to harm us, or my family, because that's when the lioness comes out.

You would not get out of bed in the morning if you were constantly worrying about the possibility of something happening to you on your way to work. But it is still something to pay attention to, I think.

No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives. For example, my first instinct when I receive an envelope full of white powder... is to snort it! I just won't do that this time!

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

I just want to be able to get on an airplane and enjoy myself in Disneyland, not sit there worrying about all these assassins.

We all lock our doors at night, not because we hate the people outside, but because we love the people inside.

He that fears danger in time seldom feels it.

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

Let the safety of people be the supreme law

Without the punishment of the Death by a Thousand Cuts, I am afraid people in China would have nothing to fear … and before long there would be more and more criminals, and it would be hard to ensure peace and stability.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.