Threat Quotes

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into account in threat prevention.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

If you want to see the greatest threat to your financial future, go home and take a look in the mirror.

An enlarged Union based on Nice is not in the interest of any Member State ... This is not a threat. This is a messenger delivering news.

I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.

I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.

We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

I take the threat of terrorism very seriously, and no one is more committed to hunting down terrorists and bringing them to justice, wherever they live, than I am.

I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.

There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different kind of threat to the rules-based order.

We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.

I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens.

Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.

Change is no threat to culture.

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

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.

My general rule of thumb is, once something's a ride at Disneyland, I assume that it is no longer a threat in real life. Which is why I don't expect to get attacked by a giant tea cup anytime soon.

Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government.

Every time I am on the field I am a threat to make a big play. I am going to do my job every day and can be relied upon.

You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.

The principle I believe in is the principle of protecting our nation. I believe that the United States has the right to attack any country it views as a threat at a time and place of its choosing.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace.

Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.