“Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.” FirstsStatesUnitedUnited StatesPolicyTasksLet MeThreatForeign PolicyAmerican Foreign Policy Author:Michael Mandelbaum
“On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.” StatesNationsRealizingUnitedEnemyUnited StatesThreatIdeologyAlliesThreatenedDisturbingBin LadenOsama Bin LadenJohn Kerry Author:Marc Racicot
“If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.” IfsWorldLooksMatterStatesAmericaUnitedAttitudeUnited StatesThreatConclusionUnited States Of America Author:Nelson Mandela
“As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.” StatesUnitedWorryUnited StatesThreatGatheringManhattanAttorneyCyber Author:Preet Bharara
“In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.” IfsStatesPurposeEnemyCasesSecurityMilitaryAimThreatSeekingAbandonFulfilledConquestMaintenance Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.” PeopleGivingLongEndsStatesGovernmentTodayLyingEnergyTermUnitedUnited StatesEconomyBehaviorSolutionsLaborThreatPeacefulReformWelfareLong TermAgencyDepartmentIronControlledAgricultureInterfereFistsState GovernmentWelfare StateIrsFdaUnited States Government Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.” WorldLongStatesEffortSecurityWeaponsMassCapableDestructionThreatIraqLiberationRangeWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionRoguesObtaining Author:Armstrong Williams
“I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.” PeopleWantStatesWholeBodyUnitedPartyUnited StatesRepublicanThreatRepublican Party Author:John Bolton
“Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.” WayMeanEndsStatesGreatnessPoliceMethodThreatCriminalsUnlimitedCoercionPolice StatePragmatismPremiumProsecution Author:Margaret Chase Smith
“The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.” WorldWellsSaidWarEndsStatesMightForceUnitedCitiesLeaderEnemyUnited StatesAirColdMoralityDestructionThreatPopulationIsraelNuclearWar Of The WorldsBombsWillingnessPermitWorld War IiWorld War ICold WarAssuredCiviliansIsraeliAir ForceNuclear BombMutually Assured Destruction Author:Alan Dershowitz
“Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.” StatesActionNumbersMiddleParticularArmsThreatWestIsraelNuclearPeacefulAggressionPalestinianSyriaEasternNeighbourGazaRoguesLebanonNuclear Arms Author:Mohamed ElBaradei
“The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.” StatesCommunityUnitedUnited StatesWeaponsDirectThreatIncludingInternationalNuclearPursuitRegionsRegimesNuclear WeaponsIranianPersianInternational CommunityPersian Gulf Author:Condoleezza Rice
“The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.” WorldShouldStatesRiskConditionsSecuritySafeThreatTransitionPassagesRegimesStableShelterNational SecurityCurvesSlidesModernityInstability Author:Ian Bremmer