Ruppersberger Quotes

#1. She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice.

Kristin Hannah

#2. Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Henry Adams

#3. One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous strange cry, as they flew by. I think that is what our own best prayer must sound like when we send it up to heaven.

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. I think president after president has always stood behind Israel. We always will. They're our ally there. And we have to do whatever we can help them to protect their citizens.

Dutch Ruppersberger

#5. In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.

Daisaku Ikeda

#6. P of what al Qaeda tries to do, and terrorists, is disrupt. Americans should live their lives just as they have every day, but just be aware.

Dutch Ruppersberger

#7. I feel everything intensely, but sometimes I can't feel anything, I'm either hyper aware or numb.

Tina J. Richardson

#8. Al Qaeda will always focus on us, the United States. And they will take advantage of any situation.

Dutch Ruppersberger

#9. I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties.

Dutch Ruppersberger

#10. The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.

Dutch Ruppersberger

#11. I think Iran is a very dangerous country - very dangerous to Israel, to the Middle East, and also to the United States. They export terrorism. And they also have the ability to manufacture rockets and missiles.

Dutch Ruppersberger

#12. Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.

Ben Parr

#13. People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks.'

Dutch Ruppersberger