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Quotes About Threat

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.
~ Max Baucus
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
~ Amiri Baraka
The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.
~ John Clifford
Cyberterrorism has become an increasingly prevalent and serious threat here in America, both to individuals and businesses.
~ Dana Boente
On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give them any thought. But despite being remote objects that most people have never seen, asteroids, and the threat they pose, come up an awful lot in popular culture.
~ Carrie Nugent
We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.
~ Ray Nagin
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
~ Harry A. Blackmun
There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
~ Edward Kennedy
There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.
~ Robert Foster Bennett
If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?
~ Jeff Gannon
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
~ Mary Douglas
The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.
~ Howard Berman
At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.
~ Jamie Redknapp
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.
~ Armstrong Williams
There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
~ James Forrestal
I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
~ Ralph Fiennes
Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.
~ Jim Costa
Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.
~ David Blunkett
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.
~ Lord Robertson
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
~ Bianca Jagger
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat.
~ Mark Kennedy
Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
~ Bashar al-Assad
In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization.
~ Edward Grey