“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.” WantProblemGovernmentJobsPovertyPoliticianPromiseThreatCancerSolveUnemploymentBureaucracyNo ProblemSolved Problems Author:L. Neil Smith
“The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.” ArtWarArtistCan DoPoliticianThreatWarningArmament Author:Arthur Miller
“Politicians in Europe want change. The United States and China will follow this trend. One could see this is a threat, but it's also an opportunity. We at BMW want to take advantage of this and, through innovations, place ourselves at the forefront.” WantStatesOpportunityUnitedUnited StatesPoliticianEuropeAdvantageInnovationThreatChinaTrendsBmw Author:Norbert Reithofer
“You can't have Rosie on The View and Elton John packing Mom and Pop in at Caesars Palace and gay people all over television, and then have these politicians run out there with a straight face and say that gay and lesbian relationships are a threat to the family. We are winning in the culture - which is why we'll ultimately win the political war.” PeopleWarRunningFacesPoliticalCultureWinningViewsTelevisionMomPoliticianGayThreatPopsPalacesGay PeoplePackingRosieStraight Face Author:Dan Savage
“Police officers today are a protected class, one no politician wants to oppose. Law enforcement interests may occasionally come up short on budgetary issues, but legislatures rarely if ever pass new laws to hold police more accountable, to restrict their powers, or to make them more transparent. In short, police today embody all of the threats the Founders feared were posed by standing armies, plus a few additional ones they couldn't have anticipated.” IfsWantMayTodayLawInterestClassIssuesPoliticianStandingArmyPoliceThreatCome UpPlusOfficersProtectedFoundersLaw EnforcementEnforcementTransparentLegislaturePolice Officer Author:Radley Balko
“The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want [...] Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic. The press helps every time it writes scare stories about the plot and the threat. And if we're terrified, and we share that fear, we help.” IfsWantWritingRealHelpingStoriesUseSharePoliticianPressesThreatKillingTerrorismBillionsCampaignsTerroristReactionsPlotTargetScareTerrifiedTactics Author:Bruce Schneier
“In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.” WorldWayResponsibilityMoralPoliticianAnxietyThreatArguingLuxuryEngagingMoral Responsibility Author:Andrew Solomon
“I'm not comparing myself with Donald Trump or anybody else - but the people are fed up with the politicians ignoring the problem. The people are fed up by if they say something about the influx of the mass immigration from mostly Islamic countries, what they really feel is the threat for the safety of their daughters who go to school or their parents who walk in the park or themselves going shopping on a Thursday evening in Holland - they are being called racist if they make a remark about, 'hey this is not our country anymore.'” PeopleIfsFeelsCountryProblemSchoolParentWalksTrumpPoliticianMassDaughterSafetyThreatImmigrationOur CountryHeyEveningCompareParksIslamicRacistFedsShoppingRemarksFed UpThursdayHollandWalks In The Park Author:Geert Wilders
“In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban leadership was in Pakistan. This is the great virtue of the early statements of the Obama administration, when Obama himself, Richard Holbrooke and others, said that the threat to both countries comes principally from western Pakistan, in Balujistan and Waziristan. So there has been some progress, but probably the hardest part is yet to come.” Has BeensSaidCountryVirtueProgressImpossiblePolicyPoliticianThreatWesternBritishStatementsHardestAdministrationAcknowledgeMakersPakistanTalibanPolicy Makers Author:Chris Alexander
“If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.” PeopleSecurityPoliticianRepublicanThreatDemocratImmigrationCounty Author:Jose Antonio Vargas