risk Quotes

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It's hard to get off of that equilibrium.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.

We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.