Kate Adie Quotes

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

In a war zone you know exactly where the threats are coming from. I plan my way in and we plan our way out and you're there for a limited period of time.

There are 160,000 of our men and women in Iraq that wonder whether there is going to be a hand grenade or a missile lobbed into where they are sleeping at night. Those are people who make a real sacrifice.

I think war is a dangerous place.

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

Seen through the eyes of a U.S. soldier, Afghanistan is a scary place.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.

Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.

Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.

My time in war zones have been fleeting and infrequent. I've been to Iraq. I've been to Afghanistan. I've been to other places where I've collected hazardous duty pay.

I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.

He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

Blood is one of the things that made fights cool. Like, you knew it had gotten serious. I understand why we don't do it anymore.

We know that the American people are only safe because our law enforcement officers face danger. We can only rest easy because they never rest. And we can only dwell in peace because they stand between us and the danger.

I like to be with my back against the wall in dangerous situations.

I've been in cars that have been shot at.

I shouldn't have to worry any time my father walks outside the front door of our home.