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• We have marched in lockstep with Israel. We've been side by side with them as they've confronted the Iranian nuclear threat and we'll continue to be. All options do remain on the table. That's something that we've said all along. That continues to be the case.

  Josh Earnest

  Israel, Tables, Sides

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• I don't see that there is a credible threat for American action - the rhetoric of the U.S. President is too vague, very amorphous. I don't see that Obama's words will be translated into more tangible intentions and therefore this is probably why the Iranians don't take it seriously. They speak out against it and they dismiss it.

  Tzachi Hanegbi

  Israel, Speaks Out, President

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• I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Israel, Holocaust, Historical

  "Ban, in Iran, slams Holocaust denial, hostility to Israel", www.cnn.com. August 30, 2012.

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• I will go to the UN General Assembly and, in a clear voice, tell the nations of the world the truth about Iran's terrorist regime, which constitutes the greatest threat to world peace.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Iran, Voice

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• If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed.

  Michael Parenti

  Brother, Heart, America

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• The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize, think, and influence one another without any institutional supervision whatsoever.

  John Seabrook

  Thinking, Government, People

  "My First Flame". Brave New World Dept., www.newyorker.com. June 6, 1994.

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• What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of fourteen who, if they don't behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with "punishments." He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments. You have no right to "punish" Israel - and I protest at the very use of this term.

  Menachem Begin

  Fighting, Government, Israel

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• Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Israel, Ideas

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• Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

  Ehud Olmert

  Israel, Kind, Position

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• Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

  Ehud Olmert

  Europe And America, Israel, Iran

  "'Israel Should Not Be on the Forefront of a War Against Iran'". Interview with Romesh Ratnesar, content.time.com. April 09, 2006.

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• The greatest polluting element in the earth's environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider that to be a far greater threat on a global scale than warming, or the increase of chemical elements in the environment.

  Robert O. Becker

  Phones, Elements, Earth

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• So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Thinking, Long

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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• At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Careers, Action, Get Back

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• The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

  Dick Wolf

  Change, Support Systems, Fundamentals

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• At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Leadership, India And Pakistan, America

  "A need for U.S. to lead" by Ellen Tauscher, www.sfgate.com. September 24, 2006.

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• The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari

  Use, World, Today

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• But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Relationship, Past, Race

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• The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.

  John S. Pistole

  Technology, Light, Enemy

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• The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Hype, Voter Fraud, Voters

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• Fundamentalist Christianity is not just a threat to lesbians and gays, but to all Americans who cherish democracy and the rights and protections guaranteed us by the U.S. constitution.

  Mel White

  Gay, Rights, Democracy

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• I am convinced that Christian fundamentalism is a far greater threat to this country than Muslim terrorists could ever be.

  Mel White

  Christian, Country, Notable

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• We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.

  Paul Cellucci

  Country, Believe, Organization

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• Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

  Al Gore

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Al Gore's speech on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2002.

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• The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, War, Mass Destruction

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• Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq's enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Real, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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