Threat Quotes

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
Steve Lacy

Status, Original, Whoever

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
Barbara Kruger

Girl, Gun, Language

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
Jack Kemp

Joke, Looking, Might

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
Bianca Jagger

Government, America, Dominance

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
Ian Somerhalder

Important, America, Why

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.
John Bolton

War, After, American

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.
Eric Alterman

Nothing, Problem, Lies

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
Edvard Munch

Mother, Sick, Hell

There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Conrad Black

Great, Doubt, Serious

Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.
Leon Panetta

Work, Past, Support

A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.
David Letterman

Time, Thinking, Through

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
Walter Isaacson

Great, Terrorism, Planet

We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.
Sebastian Vettel

Good, Happen, Reason

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
Michelle Bachelet

Alone, Today, State

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
Mary Douglas

Life, Leader, Off

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
Mary Douglas

Science, True, Growth

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
Mary Leakey

Time, Human, She

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
Lyn Nofziger

Government, Guns, Protect

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
Bashar al-Assad

Since, Israel, Inception

Al Qaeda has no place in Pakistan. It's a threat to Pakistan. And there should be a convergence of interests between the Pakistani state and the West on security issues, but also on wider economic and social issues.
David Miliband

Place, Between, Social

We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.
David Miliband

Keep, Public, United

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
Steve Lacy

Until, Seems, Anybody

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.
Ernest Istook

Today, Parents, Violence

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
Carol P. Christ

Religion, Women, Leaving

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.
Jay Weatherill

Change, Left, Longer

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
Bianca Jagger

Within, Iraq, Attack

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.
Dennis Kucinich

United, Nations, Iraq

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.
Paul Cellucci

War, Effort, Iraq

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Jose Bergamin

Advice, Piece, Contains

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
Kate Adie

War, Freedom, Used

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