#threat

The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction. ↗

— Hans Blix

#iranians #iraqis #mass #me #saudis

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#actually #against #attack #capacity #difficult

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away. ↗

— John Boehner

#during #go #go away #hoped #leaders

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons. ↗

— George W. Bush

#freedom-loving #hold #hostage #leaders #nations

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#continue #few #health #internet #nation

I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that's going to be one of my missions coming up. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#community #could #ever #explain #get

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#between #blessed #both #communication #cursed

We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#council #due #impossible #saw #security

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#battle #boa #describe #else #fact

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium. ↗

— Rand Beers

#crime #dangerous #expansion #millennium #most