Nouriel Roubini Quotes

Our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

Every threat must be taken seriously.

If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long …. The war on terrorism will not be won on the defensive.

The safety and security of the nation depends more so than ever before on intelligence.

If you want to avoid all risks, soon you will have no risks to worry about.

Societies' abilities to cope with the unknown depend on the flexibility of their institutions and individuals, and on their capacity to experiment freely with alternative forms of adaptation to the risks which threaten them.

Embassies are fixed assets and as such are always subject to terrorist attacks.

We face a wide array of threats, which means we have to have a wide array of capabilities.

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.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

Safe is just another word for scared.

I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

More warnings issued by all branches of the government today that another terrorist attack is imminent. We're not sure when, we're not sure where, just that it is coming. Who is attacking us now, the cable company?

Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

The only real security is in having lots of opportunity. But risk is the price to pay for opportunity. And risk is scary.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

There are a broad range of issues that need to be dealt with. We've got the president's name up on buildings in places where they could be a terrorist attack. This is a very precarious situation.

Everyone's nervous these days. Ronald McDonald has hired six bodyguards, and that's just to protect his buns.