Barack Quote by Chris Christie

Violence has always been implied by previous US presidents: That is to say, if North Korea launched an attack, or crossed certain red lines,…

— Charles K. Armstrong

I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.

— Wayne LaPierre

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

— Henry A. Kissinger

We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream media, we…

— Henry Giroux

“A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.”

— DaShanne Stokes

I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them…

— Trent Lott

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

— Andrew Sullivan

Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons…

— Julianne Malveaux

Sometimes it's important to watch what the president does rather than what he says.

— John McCain

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

— Deeyah Khan

Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the…

— Anonymous

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying…

— Noam Chomsky