Quotes About Threat

Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.

Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

What we achieved under General Petraeus up through 2011, and defeating this threat that we faced out there, I mean, once we decided to come out of there, we squandered an enormous opportunity that, frankly, the military did actually provide our nation and provided the Middle East.

Your parents' al Qaeda was a very different model than the threat we face today.

The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda.

Climate change is a very real threat right now to our economy, the future of our children, to our way of life.

What I'm concerned about are two things. I think one that John Miller talked about, and that's the radicalization over the Internet that ISIS is very adept at doing. The other one is a foreign fighter threat.

I know there's a lot of discussion about building a 2000-mile wall. I think we need to complete the Secure Fencing Act, but we need greater technology and aviation aspects down on the Southwest border so we can see the threat from the sky. Until you can see it, you don't know where it's coming from and how to correctly stop it.

The threat is real, and it comes from the Internet. This is a new generation of terrorist. This is not Bin Laden in caves with couriers anymore. This is what the new threat of terrorism looks like.

We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force to destroy that program.

No state should have to endure the threat of terrorists entering our borders.

The politicization of the presidency would pose a real threat to the institution and its function.

Responsibility demands action, and dealing with the immediate threat must naturally be a top priority.

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.

Putting aside the growing threat from Islamic jihadist terrorism, most of America's problems are home grown. So when I say overthrow the establishment to fix the economy, and the brilliant businessman Wilbur Ross says we need radical new approaches to government, we're talking two sides of the same coin.

Bush administration officials, of course, deny that they didn't take the threat urgently enough, but there is no debating that in their public utterances, private meetings, and actions, the al Qaeda threat barely registered.

What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.

As I've seen over and over again during my career, the best way to deter individual conduct is the threat of going to jail. That's what truly changes behavior. That's what changes the calculus as employees and executives decide whether to participate in an illegal scheme.

The PKK is the number one threat in terms of terror in our country.

The idea that an actress - mostly lauded for her performances in more than a dozen films - somehow represents a threat to Iran's national security is laughable at best. But in Ahangarani's case, far from anything humorous, the allegations have actually resulted in the sober prospect of real prison time.

Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.

The threat from radical Islamic jihadists is real and needs to be taken seriously.

Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can be averted. Furthermore, it is only by reviving American economic growth that the West's global predominance can be sustained, and peace and freedom kept secure around the world.

There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.