Quotes About Threat

In fact, the CCP's ideological agenda extends far beyond the country's borders and represents a threat to the idea of democracy itself, including in the United States.

Beijing is preparing for an open-ended period of confrontation with the U.S. Washington should also be prepared. Leaders must work across partisan divides to understand the threat, speak about it openly, and take action to address it.

Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten democracy?

This deficit that we have threatens our very way of life, and everything needs to be on the table.

Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.

Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

Racism is a problem, economic inequality is a problem, not enough rock n' roll on the radio is a problem. But all those problems will become insignificant when the oceans rise in a way that threatens organised human activity.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.

When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks.

What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' was on TV, and they don't really make movies like that anymore, just simple and scary. The truly scary thing is, 'I'm going to threaten your life, I'm going to threaten the people you love. What are you going to do about it?'

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.

Without action to de-carbonize our economies, unchecked climate change threatens to batter lives and economies around the world, hitting the poorest people hardest.

Global terrorism threatens every region.

The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.

There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.

Here's the truth: Keystone XL won't make America energy-independent. It will threaten our land and livelihoods to pump Canadian tar sands' heavy crude through America and out to foreign countries, like China.

I feel like I just have the ability to threaten from any position, whether we're standing or the fight is on the ground.

Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.