Safe Haven Quotes:

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million

- Al Jardine

topic: Safe Haven, Thinking, California, Coups

Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.

- Barack Obama

topic: Islamic, Safe Haven, Two, Islamic State, Islamic Terrorism

I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

- Barack Obama

topic: Country, Mean, Safe Haven, Islamic State, Degrade

This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

- Barack Obama

topic: Safe Haven, America, Principles

Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States.

- Barack Obama

topic: Safe Haven, Iraq, People, Facility, Islamic State

We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment.

- Barack Obama

topic: War, Safe Haven, Iraq, Kurdish, Islamic State

This is American leadership at its best. We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.

- Barack Obama

topic: Fighting, Safe Haven, People, Islamic State, Degrade

I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and Congress work together. So I welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that Americans are united in confronting this danger.

- Barack Obama

topic: Believe, Safe Haven, Order, Isil, Confronting

This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.

- Barack Obama

topic: Safe Haven, Years, Air, Islamic State, Islamic Terrorism

Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will allow us to bring our troops home from there. And around the globe, as we draw down in Iraq, we have gone after al Qaeda so that terrorists who threaten America will have no safe haven, and Osama bin Laden will never again walk the face of this Earth.

- Barack Obama

topic: War, Home, Safe Haven, Our Troops, Because Of You

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

- Brassai

topic: Wall, Safe Haven, Voice

I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.

- Brittany Murphy

topic: Dream, Artist, Safe Haven

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

- Bruce Conner

topic: New York, Safe Haven, Mazes

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

- Cofer Black

topic: Safe Haven, Operations, Collecting, Counter Terrorism

...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

- Ed Koch

topic: New York, Safe Haven, Thinking, Advancing

The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.

- George Osborne

source: "UK economy: Cameron backs Osborne's upbeat assessment despite weak growth" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2011.

topic: Jobs, Real, Safe Haven, Creating Jobs, Instability

I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

- Hill Harper

topic: Safe Haven, Thinking, Numbers, Invest In Yourself

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Safe Haven, Family Love, Heartache, Emotional Abuse

Our eventual aim is simply stated - that there should be no safe haven for terrorists anywhere in the world. We say to the people of Afghanistan: 'You have been ill served by those who have made your country a centre for terrorism across the world. As soon as this stops, the world will work with you to build a better future for you and for your children.

- Jack Straw

source: "Key quotes from the Commons debate" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2001.

topic: Country, Children, Safe Haven

Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We've seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I think this is genuine safe-haven buying.

- James Moore

topic: Loss, Safe Haven, Thinking

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

- Julia Gillard

topic: Safe Haven, Safe, Terrorism

When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.

- Khloe Kardashian

topic: Home, Safe Haven, Play

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

source: Inaugural address as President of Yale University, April 11, 1964.

topic: Safe Haven, Reality, Risk, Displeasure

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

- Kristi Yamaguchi

source: "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family". Interview with Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.

topic: Emotional, Safe Haven, Self

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

- Leon Panetta

source: 'This Week' with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. June 27, 2010.

topic: Country, Safe Haven, Winning, Stable

At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Heart, Safe Haven, Envy

Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life's momentous acts of self-definition.

- Margaret H. Marshall

topic: Safe Haven, Self, Decision

Without a safe haven, one of the most authentic parts of who you are, who you love, felt invisible to the world.

- Matt Bomer

topic: Safe Haven, World, Invisible

When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that gift above all else. Even if he respects nothing else in the world, he must respect the woman in his care. It's his sworn duty to protect, honor and cherish his submissive. To take care of her and provide a safe haven. Someone who would put his own needs above his woman's is no man.

- Maya Banks

topic: Safe Haven, Men, Giving

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

- Michael Mullen

topic: Safe Haven, Als, Return, Al Qaeda

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

- Morley Safer

source: 1985 In 60 Minutes, CBS TV broadcast,15 Sep.

topic: Safe Haven, Nuts, Land, Never Never Land

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Safe Haven, Trying, Easy, Make The Best Of It

Love can sometimes achieve the impossible

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Safe Haven, Impossible, Sometimes

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Mean, Commitment, Safe Haven

Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Safe Haven, Want

but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Falling In Love, Men, Safe Haven

Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Men, Safe Haven, Lucky

It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

- Olafur Eliasson

topic: Thinking, Safe Haven, Cities

There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating system so long as you pledge allegiance to the ideas. Previously, if you wanted to join al Qaeda, you had to travel to an al Qaeda safe haven, probably in northern Pakistan or Afghanistan. Now all you have to do is get a gun, choose a target, and carry out an attack.

- Paul Gigot

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Gun, Thinking, Safe Haven

An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

- Sara Sheridan

topic: Children, Aunt, Safe Haven

A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks

- Scott McClellan

topic: Blow, Safe Haven, Iraq

By balancing the needs of families and employers, and by extending a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, our immigration policy serves its historic purpose. Freedom and opportunity is the cornerstone of American society, and immigrants continue to embody that freedom.

- Spencer Abraham

topic: Safe Haven, Opportunity, Needs, Immigration Policy

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

- Steven Spielberg

topic: Thinking, Safe Haven, Generations

A Grandmother is a safe haven.

- Suzette Haden Elgin

source: Suzette Haden Elgin (2000). “The Grandmother Principles”

topic: Grandmother, Safe Haven, Grandparent

[Donald Trump] is so unpredictable that foreigners are going to look around and say "boy, we've got to head for the safe havens." And one of the safe havens is Treasurys and [another is] the dollar.

- Gary Shilling

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Safe Haven, Boys, Dollars

We're in a pretty tumultuous world, and there's a lot of uncertainty. Treasurys are where people go as one of the few safe havens in the world.

- Gary Shilling

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Safe Haven, People, World

Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a yield spread in Treasurys versus their own sovereigns, plus the fact that if the dollar is going to continue rallying - and I think it will because it's a safe haven - then they get a currency translation gain as well.

- Gary Shilling

topic: Country, Safe Haven, Thinking

Drawing creates its own kind of private space. Coupled with certain interests that I want to speak to in my art, it's really kind of a safe haven for me. Creating art is not only a comfort zone, but also a way of speaking to my passions.

- Jerry Pinkney

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Art, Passion, Safe Haven, Creating Art

I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family. There was no safe haven for us. But somehow we always managed to be happy.

- Luis Negron

topic: Safe Haven, Remember, Poor, Poor Family

We took out the safe haven in Afghanistan, but now there is, undoubtedly, a larger safe haven and we must rise to this occasion in collaboration and with alliances to confront it, and invest in the future much better human intelligence so we know what the next steps are.

- Martin O'Malley

topic: Safe Haven, Next Steps, Collaboration, Human Intelligence

And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out. And I do think it's sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing. But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.

- Adrian Tomine

topic: Artist, Safe Haven, Thinking, Pros And Cons

One of the lessons we've learned from the last 25 years of terrorism is that groups that have safe havens are able to develop external attack capabilities in a way that groups that don't have safe havens are not. So we need to find a way to squeeze them significantly in their safe haven. Taking away territory that really matters to them is really, really important because it prevents them from focusing on external attacks.

- Michael Morell

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Safe Haven, Years, Important

I've always been a workout type guy. So if I'm feeling down or I'm not happy with something, I go to the gym and I get a shot of energy. If things don't go well in any aspect of my life, I'm going to the gym and I'm going to shoot. That's my one type of place that's a safe haven where I go and it's just me, the basketball and the hoop, and I'm just doing something I love to do.

- LaMarcus Aldridge

source: Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. February 15, 2015.

topic: Basketball, Workout, Safe Haven, Feeling Down

There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.

- Steven Spielberg

source: "Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s THE PACIFIC". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. February 4, 2010.

topic: War, Thinking, Safe Haven

With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.

- Sylvia Earle

source: Twitter post from Nov 24, 2017

topic: Ocean, Safe Haven, Care, Good Chance

At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our allies to question our resolve. So we shouldn't let one component of this determine our national security here which depends on providing an Afghanistan which denies a safe haven to terrorists as well as stabilizing Pakistan. Those are our two national security interests at stake in Afghanistan.

- Rahm Emanuel

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Safe Haven, Two, Enemy, Indecisiveness

And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.

- George W. Bush

source: Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

topic: Safe Haven, Support, Decision

Terrorists like bin Laden are serious about mass murder - and all of us must take their declared intentions seriously. They seek to impose a heartless system of totalitarian control throughout the Middle East, and arm themselves with weapons of mass murder. . . . Their aim is to seize power in Iraq, and use it as a safe haven to launch attacks against America and the world.

- George W. Bush

source: Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

topic: Safe Haven, Iraq, America

A failed Iraq in the heart of the Middle East will provide safe haven for terrorists and extremists. It will embolden those who are trying to thwart the ambitions of reformers.

- George W. Bush

source: "Bush: Leaving Iraq now would be a 'disaster'". www.cnn.com. August 21, 2006.

topic: Heart, Ambition, Safe Haven

It would send an unbelievably terrible signal to reformers across the region. It would say we've abandoned our desire to change the conditions that create terror. It would give the terrorists a safe haven from which to launch attacks. It would embolden Iran. It would embolden extremists. That's why we're not leaving Iraq.

- George W. Bush

source: "Denver broadcast outlets covered news conference but failed to report on Bush's stated intention to maintain troops in Iraq through his presidency". www.mediamatters.org. August 24, 2006.

topic: Safe Haven, Giving, Leaving

Denying Al Qaeda safe haven was the right decision.

- George W. Bush

source: Source: www.texasmonthly.com

topic: Safe Haven, Decision, Als

Usama bin Laden feels like Iraq is a part of this War on Terror. He has made it clear that he would like for us to leave before Iraq can defend itself or govern itself and sustain itself, so that he could have a safe haven from which to launch further attacks, a safe haven from which to topple modern governments, a safe haven from which to, you know, be able to get a hold of oil resources.

- George W. Bush

source: "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2006.

topic: War, Safe Haven, Oil

What we can do is make sure that Afghanistan is not a safe haven for Al Qaeda. What we can do it make sure that it is not destabilizing neighboring Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons. The key is we’ve got to have a clear objective...

- Barack Obama

source: "Interview with President Barack Obama". "NBC Today Show" with Matt Lauer, archives.nbclearn.com. February 2, 2009.

topic: Safe Haven, Keys, Weapons

I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Believe, Safe Haven, Working Together, Isil

There are so many currency exchange rate problems that people are buying gold as a safe haven. Right now, gold looks like a safe haven if international exchange rates break down.

- Michael Hudson

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Safe Haven, People, Gold, Buying Gold

The United States is pushing as policy division of the world into rival currency camps - the dollar area on the one hand, and the Russia-Chinese-Shanghai Cooperation Organization group on the other, especially now that the IMF has changed its rules. People think that if there are rival currency groupings and national currencies are going bust, we might as well use gold as a safe haven.

- Michael Hudson

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Safe Haven, Thinking, Russia, Shanghai

In terms of Iraq, al Qaeda valued Iraq because we destroyed a government it wanted destroyed and because we put soldiers on the ground and forces that they could attack. Al Qaeda is basically an insurgent organization that was formed on the model of the Afghan groups. And being bred in that war, they value a contiguous safe haven as much as anything else.

- Michael Scheuer

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: War, Safe Haven, Government, Afghan

Iraq, for the first time, gives al Qaeda and its allies contiguous safe-haven territory to train and launch attacks into the Levant. First into Jordan and Syria, and then into Lebanon, and virtually and ultimately into Israel and probably Egypt too. It also gives them haven to eventually work their way toward Turkey and into the Arabian Peninsula.

- Michael Scheuer

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Safe Haven, Israel, Egypt, Peninsulas, Arabian

The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Safe Haven, Pakistan, Als

I'm going to continue to push for a no-fly zone and safe havens within Syria not only to help protect the Syrians and prevent the constant outflow of refugees, but to, frankly, gain some leverage on both the Syrian government and the Russians so that perhaps we can have the kind of serious negotiation necessary to bring the conflict to an end and go forward on a political track.

- Hillary Clinton

source: The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

topic: Safe Haven, Government, Track

Search marketing, and most Internet marketing in fact, can be very threatening because there are no rules. There’s no safe haven. To do it right, you need to be willing to be wrong. But search marketing done right is all about being wrong. Experimentation is the only way. No one really knows whether that page will rank #1 in Google; no one really knows which paid search copy will get the highest click rate. Even experts can’t tell you which content will attract the most links. You just have to try it and see.

- Mike Moran

topic: Safe Haven, Google, Marketing, Internet Marketing, Being Wrong

The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

- Natasha Lyonne

source: "Natasha Lyonne, Locked Up". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2013.

topic: Safe Haven, Blue, World

It’s never too late to do the right thing.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Safe Haven, Domestic Violence, Too Late

She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 02, 2011

topic: Falling In Love, Safe Haven, Feelings, I Fall In Love, Falling Hard

I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2013). “Safe Haven”, p.144, Hachette UK

topic: Hurt, Believe, Safe Haven, Love Hurt

I just tell people what they already know but are afraid to admit to themselves.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2013). “Safe Haven”, p.131, Hachette UK

topic: Safe Haven, People, Knows

Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: "Safe Haven". Book by Nicholas Sparks, September 2, 2010.

topic: Believe, Heart, Safe Haven

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Twitter post from Jun 25, 2012

topic: Safe Haven, Needs, Firsts

If you love Alex now, then love him forever. Make him laugh again, and cherish the time you spend together. Take walks and ride your bikes, curl up on the couch and watch movies beneath a blanket. Make him breakfast, but don't spoil him. Let him make breakfast for you as well, so he can show you he thinks you're special. Kiss him and make love to him and consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Kissing, Safe Haven, Men

This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.

- Etgar Keret

source: "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

topic: Safe Haven, Ideas, Brochures