- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greatest Threat Quotes
Direct warnings about what worried these speakers most.
Some speakers point at weapons and hostile governments, others point closer to home, at a press painted as the enemy or at policy pressure to abandon a war too soon. See related fears under Danger quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must challenge this statement and this sentiment that the news media is the enemy of the American people. This sentiment may be the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
- Heritage
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- Nov 07, 2020
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
- Expel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massive human-rights abuses, or expel an invader. But I have also seen that in the modern world, civil wars are the greatest threat to humanitarian security.
- Avengers
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was always the intent, in a larger arc, to split the Avengers up before the greatest threat that they've ever seen.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest threat to our freedom and prosperity is not al-Qaida, the Taliban, Iran or even China. It's an idea, the idea that we can spend our way out of our problems without tightening our belt and paring down the very bloated government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020