Threat Quotes

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

I think that we have to look at ISIS as the leading threat of an international terror network. It cannot be contained, it must be defeated.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.

It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

When you have a little bit more of a threat, I guess you just have a better sense of urgency, and for me that's when the best comes out in me

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

We face now an era where we're going to be fighting the terrorist threat. I mean, that's simply a reality we are going to have to address that one.

Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.

Right now, Russia's future should be wedded to Europe. Why they see NATO as a threat is beyond me. Clearly, NATO is not a threat.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.

One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.

A Newsweek poll said if the election were held today, John Kerry would beat Bush 49 percent to 46 percent. And today, President Bush called Newsweek magazine a threat to world peace.

I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.

[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.

That, by the way, is perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard, that climate change is a bigger threat to our country than radical Islamic terrorism.

If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?

Climate change isnʼt a distant threat. Itʼs already changing the way we live.

I think the elites who have done nothing about it, who don't want a wall and don't care that the border is illegal, they see this as a threat.

National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

If we're not in the debates there will be no real discussion of climate change, because Hillary Clinton's policy does not begin to address the threat.

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

The spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat facing the country-and I would argue facing humanity.

The caliphate will have been dismantled. It will still be a problem, but that has been our focus because that is the greatest existential threat to U.S. interests.

We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.

We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.

I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling

The American people, or at least the ones that I get on the subway with - they know there's a real threat out there. They felt like Iraq lessened our ability to fight that threat.

American friends of Israel as well as those who understand the grave threat that Iran poses to U.S. interests and security need to face the fact that this president has abandoned them.

Most people feel very strongly that Donald Trump is a threat to the nation. He must be defeated.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

When you're facing the threat of recession, you need to have an expansionary monetary and fiscal policy. Pre-Keynesian, Hooverite views are dead everywhere except on 19th Street in Washington.

A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.