Emptive Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
— Michael Ignatieff
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With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not think of launching…
— Gianfranco Fini
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Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack…
— Gaelen Foley
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And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action.
— George W. Bush
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With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes…
— Ann Coulter
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense…
— Ed Gillespie
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We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
— Jesse Jackson
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In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than…
— Ron Paul
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented…
— Nancy Pelosi
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Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could…
— John Yoo
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Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
— Noam Chomsky
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I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened…
— Rosanne Cash
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What people are seeing in Ferguson, MO is a community being pre-emptive instead of reactive! We all want the family to have peace and justice.…
— Merle Rutledge Jr
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in…
— Ferdinand Mount
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Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes…
— Mark Thomas
Who Wrote These Emptive Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Emptive Quotes as follows: