#threat

I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests. ↗

— John Pomfret

#bosnia #directly #engage #i #i think

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#commercial #during #grave #grave threat #japan

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

#act #got #necessary #threat #where

We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#because #been #date #destruction #found

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#arizona #around #growing #idea #rogue

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

#deterrent #fact #feel #kind #makes

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#alliance #avert #chamberlain #desires #england

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place. ↗

— William S. Cohen

#dangerous #dangerous place #holocaust #nuclear #place

Change is no threat to culture. ↗

— Wade Davis

#culture #threat