#threaten

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#application #apply #brakes #car #democratic

Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#bill #could #counter-intelligence #countries #funding

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#become #chinese #come #democracy #eventually

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#affairs #because #beginning #during #foreign

They told me that I had a leaky valve, which is something that is certainly not life-threatening. It's common and it's something that had I not known about it, would I have lived? Sure. But it's something that I think is important to know, especially as I get older and given that I have heart disease in my family. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#certainly #common #disease #especially #family

Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#attacks #dog #expect #him #hit

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening. ↗

— Peter Tork

#monkees #music #other #plots #same

But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#christians #definition #destruction #entire #free

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#continues #corps #decisions #drought #engineers

Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#baldwin #before #boy #bush #country