#threaten

Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear. ↗

— Bill Frist

#citizens #clear #cornerstone #critically #crystal

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future? ↗

— David R. Gergen

#heaven #how #much #name #nation

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#ago #caused #cute #died #ever

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral. ↗

— James Larkin

#danger #duty #faults #funeral #go

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#conventional #electronica #music #people #play

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#did #doing #episodes #first #had

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#city #community #crime #established #fighting

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#barbra streisand #beatles #bruce #bruce springsteen #just

There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#being #cloning #coming #cures #diseases

If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#hatred #illegal #incite #insult #justin