Michael Palin Quotes

We all have to be concerned about the world being very dangerous.

I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world.

We live in very, very, very dangerous times.

I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan.

There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

Africa is a very dangerous place.

Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

If I'm in America, I'm safe. I feel very safe. But if I step outside of America, it will be a very dangerous situation.

We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke a famine.

Believe me I've been to Paris and I think that no place is safe in the world. We women need to care of ourselves wherever we go.

I'd love to explore South America, but the security issues worry me.

I'm not a huge fan of South Africa. I always feel a bit worried security-wise.

If your country isn't stable and free from the threat of violence then you can't get to work, you can't get to the local clinic and your children can't go to school.

The world is a dangerous place. And it's a more dangerous place than it was seven years ago [before Obama].

Ethiopia is an island of stability within the Horn of Africa, which is a troubled region.

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.

There are many difficult challenges in Afghanistan. And we still have Taliban. We still have terrorist organizations there, and we will see violence and we will see conflict there also in the coming years,.

The switch has been built. Maybe you trust Barack Obama not to throw that switch, and maybe you trust George Bush not to throw that switch, but as we look towards the future, we see inequality becoming more and more acute. We're seeing more and more protests against cops and this kind of thing. We're also seeing more and more natural disasters. We're seeing more and more environmental insecurity.

In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.

I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem.

After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.

Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.