#threatened

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death. ↗

— John Linder

#being #citizens #death #elections #even

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#being #could #death #die #doing

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#continues #corps #decisions #drought #engineers

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened. ↗

— Lorenzo Snow

#constitution #institutions #integrity #laws #liberty

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#anything #creates #favor #i #israel

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#does #economy #mean #only #our

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#mine #people #problem #some #some people

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#depression #early #formed #great #great depression

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

#bureaus #candidate #committees #effort #favor

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened. ↗

— Liam Fox

#britain #broken #country #education #global