Threat Quotes

• Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Destruction
  • Mass

• I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Force
  • Danger
  • Conviction

• New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Term

• The Russians are using the tools at their disposal to weaken Western solidarity, to create doubt, to support nationalist parties, just as the old Soviets supported leftist parties. We need a united Western response to this multi-pronged threat.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Support
  • Party
  • Doubt

• The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat.

  

  Kim Jong-un
  • Reality
  • Threat

• I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

  

  William Styron
  • People
  • Writing
  • Scared

• Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy.

  

  Nigel Gibson
  • Democracy
  • Threat
  • Democratization

• The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Band
  • Terrorist
  • Threat

• United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.

  

  Roy Keane
  • Fighting
  • Soccer
  • Ends

• The biggest threat that we face right now is not a nuclear missile coming over the skies. It's in a suitcase. This is why the issue of nuclear proliferation is so important. It is the - the biggest threat to the United States is a terrorist getting their hands on nuclear weapons.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Important
  • Why
  • Terrorist

• I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Together
  • Relationship
  • Caring

• Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Suicide
  • Soviet
  • Retaliation

• If Syria disintegrates, God forbid, the whole area will be under threat.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • God
  • Threat
  • Syria

• Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Advertising
  • Flattery
  • Adverts

• There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Strong
  • Honesty
  • Terror

• Dealing with the threat that Secretaries Albright and Cohen have described, the threat from Saddam Hussein, demands constant resolve by the United States and by the international community; and at times, action. As long as he remains in power, we must be prepared to respond firmly to reckless actions that threaten the region and our interests. We've done that successfully over this decade.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • Long
  • Done
  • Community

• Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

  

  Michel Faber
  • Danger
  • Threat
  • Allure

• The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.

  

  Amina Mama
  • Women
  • Threat
  • Militarism

• That is the number-one threat we face in the world. And it becomes particularly threatening if terrorists ever get their hands on any nuclear material. So a man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes, as far as I think anyone with any sense about this should be concerned.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Face
  • Threat

• You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be shot on the spot.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Action
  • Duty
  • Terrorism

• Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • Trying
  • Term
  • Acknowledge

• Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

  

  Van Jones
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Threat

• History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

  

  George Gilder
  • Prosperity
  • Socialism
  • Debt

• Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Mean
  • Scared
  • Terrorist

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