Quotes About Preemption

#1. When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

John Sununu

#2. The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.

John Lewis Gaddis

#3. Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But of course governments do not ask, they: tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not 'ask' for contributions. It takes.

Thomas Sowell

#4. In 1849 he had forty-six chieftains sign a treaty in which they declared themselves subjects of the queen. The Crown has had right of preemption for land sales ever since.

Sarah Lark

#5. If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

Byron Dorgan

#6. Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

Charles Krauthammer

#7. Continued reliance on preemption analysis suppresses judicial attention to the discrimination and equality concerns that should be motivating courts' consideration of subfederal immigration regulations.

Pratheepan Gulasekaram

#8. Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

Ellen Tauscher

#9. Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#10. I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

Charles Krauthammer

#11. You can't please everybody, Microsoft. So stop trying.

Paul Thurrott

#12. Shit. Is this a good idea?
I'm a lawyer for Christ's sake.
I look at Lorelai and she looks so happy that I don't care anymore.
Screw it! If she wants to vandalise this prick's car, I'm game.
I can come up with an alibi for us both later ...

Joanne McClean

#13. The crunch of tires in the deep snow outside could be heard through the heavy cabin walls, and she followed Wolfie to see who was there. Rhys.

Shit.

Yay.

No, shit.

Really.....shit.

Sibylla Matilde

#14. love's not just the drug; it's also the dealer.

David Mitchell

#15. Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Robert Frost

#16. If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.

Bobby Fischer

#17. The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

Alex Tabarrok

#18. I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Kate Bush

#19. The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Frank Herbert

#20. When men's spirits are sinking every thing helps to sink them.

Matthew Henry

#21. I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It's like that constantly. It's not painful, but it's so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.

Dick Van Patten

#22. Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#23. The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

Joseph Alleine

#24. If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man.

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#25. As early as 1975 she had come up with a wonderful line about the Labour Party: They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

Niall Ferguson