“Let me tell you something, I didn't become a lawyer because I like the law, the law sucks. It's boring, but it can also be used as a weapon. You want to bankrupt somebody? Cost him everything he's worked for? Make his wife leave him, even make his kids cry...yeah, we can do that.” WantKidsLawUsedCan DoWifeCryCostWeaponsLet MeYeahBoringLawyerAlly Mcbeal Author:Richard Fish
“The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.” WarReasonFightingHousePowerRepublicanCostConflictMembersWeaponsArgumentCongressSeatsAssaultBansNraAssault WeaponsAssault Weapons Ban Author:William J. Clinton
“The sign of the cross is the most terrible weapon against the devil. Thus the Church wishes not only that we have it continually in front of our minds to recall to us just what our souls are worth and what they cost Jesus Christ, but also that we should make it at every juncture ourselves: when we go to bed, when we awaken during the night, when we get up, when we begin any action, and, above all, when we are tempted.” ShouldMindSoulActionNightJesusWishChristChurchFrontsTerribleCostBedWeaponsDevilJesus ChristCrossesGet UpRecallsTemptedJuncture Author:John Vianney
“We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making it more cost effective, but also focusing on the real crisis that faces America.” ThinkingNeedsRealAmericaFacesMilitaryCostMajorsWeaponsCrisisDollarsSpendingNuclearBillionsReformNuclear WeaponsMaintaining Author:Bernie Sanders
“In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.” MayHas BeensRolesTeachingCostWeaponsIraqNuclearIranNuclear WeaponsPigsPerilInvasionCasualBlundersGaddafiFecklessBay Of Pigs Author:George Will
“If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?” IfsStatesUseUsedCostWeaponsNuclearNuclear WeaponsSecretaryAvoided Author:Enoch Powell
“You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.” MeanCountryTodayReadingGivenOne ThingPlanetsTerribleCostDirectorsPaperWeaponsMassDestructionPressesCriticsFolksStudiosReviewsSci FiKillersPapersDystopianDarlingWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionFluxGdpSmall Countries Author:David Edelstein
“My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.” MadeShowsPoliticalCoursesStudyCostWeaponsArgumentIndiaBurdenMythNuclearBudgetsContributionNuclear WeaponsUnbearableCredibleDeterrentDemolishPolitical Arguments Author:Subramanian Swamy
“This is another area in which savings can also be moved from wasteful - like the F-35 weapons system that will cost us $1.5 trillion by the time it's done and it's obsolete, you know, it's a weapons system - as well as this global military infrastructure, which is unlike anything the world has ever known at any time.” KnowsWorldWellsDoneKnownMilitaryCostWeaponsAreasMovedSavingInfrastructureSavingsObsolete Author:Jill Stein
“I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.” SaidWarEndsStatesUnitedMillionsUnited StatesCostWeaponsMassDestructionDiedIntentionIraqProofCapabilityTroopsAttackingInjuredOctoberWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:Dennis Kucinich
“Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.” MenHappinessSuccessFightingWealthCenturyCostSucceedAmbitionWorshipWeaponsEvery Man Book:Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.” IfsThinkingWayTryingLittlesWould BeTurnsFallNextTakenCostDemandWeaponsSilentRoundsClockHostilityScenariosLoadedPeetaCapitolGreetingsFlippedHaymitch Author:Suzanne Collins