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When I came to Congress in 1993, the traditional idea that all politics stopped at the water's edge was alive and well. Americans had been unified for the previous four decades against the threat from the former Soviet Union and communism.
Pete Hoekstra
Politics
Communism
Water
Edge
Congress
Alive
Threat
Previous
Had
Idea
Well
Came
Traditional
Been
Decades
American
Soviet
Soviet Union
Stopped
Former
Against
Unified
Union
Four
There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.
Peter Berg
Truth
You
Threat
Boxing
Opponent
Real
Very
Violence
The inattention of the Bush administration to the threat from al Qaeda had results. Shortly before 9/11, Bush's attorney general, John Ashcroft, turned down FBI requests for some 400 additional counterterrorism personnel.
Peter Bergen
Before
Down
Additional
Administration
John
Threat
Some
General
Results
Had
Counterterrorism
Attorney
Attorney General
Bush
Bush Administration
Personnel
Turned
Requests
Al
Al-Qaeda
To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.
Peter DeFazio
Destruction
Military
Believe
Programs
Trial
Has-Been
Weapons
Threat
Hussein
Alleged
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Mass
Mass Destruction
Been
Iraq
Contrary
Done
Them
Asked
The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.
Preet Bharara
Increasing
States
Threat
Threats
Menace
About
Facing
Invoke
Terms
Frequency
Greatest
Sound
Existential
Officials
Next
Harbor
Regularly
United
Grave
United States
Alarm
Bells
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.
Preet Bharara
Few
Gathering
Worry
States
Threat
About
Come
Attorney
Few Things
Manhattan
Much
Cyber
United
United States
Things
For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science fiction, our gravitational wave discoveries have had an amazing public impact.
Rainer Weiss
Science
Vision
Amazing
Black
Related
Wave
Our
Books
Threat
Black Holes
Impact
Had
Also
Science Fiction
Comic
Comic Books
Discoveries
Fiction
Einstein
Holes
Public
Reasons
Popular
Gravitational
Albert
Albert Einstein
I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
Ralph Fiennes
Good
You
People
Face
Back
Kids
Threat
Head
Knife
Because
Got
Test
Go
Shoot
Quite
Movie
Which
Actually
The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems.
Rana el Kaliouby
Problem
AI
Systems
Threat
Instead
Development
Real
Existential
Real Problem
Ethical
September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
Randy Forbes
Life
Day
Terrorism
History
September
Changed
Our
Threat
Knew
Forever
American
Us
President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country.
Rashida Tlaib
Country
President
Our
Threat
Direct
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Serious
Everybody in the league knew I had trouble with the inside pitch. I got away with it only because the great majority of pitchers were afraid of making a mistake in that spot. The threat of power is one of the best weapons you have in the batter's box.
Reggie Jackson
Best
Great
You
Mistake
Trouble
Power
Everybody
Batter
Weapons
Inside
Threat
Great Majority
Only
Had
Knew
League
Majority
Box
Because
Spot
Got
Making
Were
Pitch
Pitchers
Afraid
Away
Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'
Renee Zellweger
Me
You
Destruction
Our
Possessed
Weapons
Threat
Proof
Hussein
Throughout
Had
He
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Mass
Mass Destruction
Him
Because
Courtship
Kenny
In order to take a nation to war, you have to believe mightily in the threat you are facing and the virtue of your cause.
Richard Cohen
War
You
Cause
Nation
Believe
Virtue
Threat
Facing
Take
Order
Your
Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.
Richard Engel
Life
Politics
Religion
Men
Kidnapping
Threat
Hurting
Another
Because
Always
Reporting
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.
Richard Greenberg
Time
Lost
Circumstances
Threat
Volition
Feels
Like
Still
Passing
Existential
Standard
Play
Watch
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
Rick Perry
Job
Country
Every
Sector
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Threat
Freedom-Loving
Private
Private Sector
American
Affront
Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism, to build up the American military power to assure our national security against any conceivable threat.
Robert Dallek
Communism
Power
Build
National
Military
Think
Assure
Our
Security
Threat
Someone
General
Had
He
Combat
Ideas
Foreign
Reagan
Foreign Affairs
Affairs
Up
Very
American
National Security
Any
Which
Against
Ronald Reagan
American Military
Certain
Who
Military Power
Lives
There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.
Robert Foster Bennett
Peace
Before
Active
East
Has-Been
Would
Threat
No Question
Prospects
Dealt
Been
Question
Iraq
Exit
Endanger
America
Represent
Currently
Middle
Middle East
Premature
Eventual
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.
Robert M. Gates
Threat
Obviously
Well
Israel
Iranian
Existential
Nuclear
Thinks
Program
Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can be averted. Furthermore, it is only by reviving American economic growth that the West's global predominance can be sustained, and peace and freedom kept secure around the world.
Robert Zubrin
Freedom
Peace
World
National
Furthermore
Secure
Must
Threat
Only
Economic
Through
Economic Growth
Devastating
Global
Because
Around
Issue
West
American
Bankruptcy
Sustained
Central
Growth
Kept
When Xi Jinping came to power, there were a series of hints that market-based capitalism would be allowed to move forward under his leadership. At the first real threat, they've fallen over themselves to impose government control.
Roger Altman
Government
Leadership
Capitalism
Power
First
Control
Would
Would-Be
Threat
Allowed
Over
Hints
Real
Came
Fallen
Impose
Were
Government Control
His
Move
Move Forward
Themselves
Forward
Series
Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism.
Ron Chernow
Criticism
Extremely
Threat
Perceived
Only
He
Combative
Also
Hamilton
Anything
Trust me: our critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attack, to potential terrorist attack, and we are not taking this threat seriously enough.
Ron Johnson
Me
Trust
Seriously
Enough
Our
Critical
Threat
Potential
Attack
Taking
Vulnerable
Terrorist
Terrorist Attack
Trust Me
Infrastructure
Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while thanking our military is standard practice in American life, no one thinks of thanking the FBI, the CIA, or the rest of the intelligence community for keeping us safe since 9/11.
Ronald Kessler
Life
Freedom
CIA
Intelligence
Rest
Important
Practice
Become
Intelligence Community
Community
Military
Preserving
Our
Threat
No-One
Since
Safe
Because
Terrorist
American
Thanking
While
American Life
Us
Standard
Keeping
Thinks
When something is presented as an existential threat, it is very easy to scare the Israelis.
Ronen Bergman
Easy
Scare
Threat
Something
Israelis
Existential
Very
Presented
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