Retaliatory Quotes

#1. The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#2. I didn't shop. I committed retaliatory consumerism.

Kresley Cole

#3. I had to fight hard for everything. I wanted to get out. I want to take my destiny into my own hands and escape the vicious cycle of retaliatory violence. This struggle has shaped who I am to this day.

Paul Kagame

#4. All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Ayn Rand

#5. An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

Moshe Sharett

#6. Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

John Foster Dulles

#7. Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.

Ronald Reagan

#8. If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

Barney Frank

#9. I don't think that the administration is being particularly honest with the American people about what this is going to cost in life and in dollars, what the dangers are, retaliatory strikes, once it happens. This is not a war that needs to happen immediately, if ever.

Janeane Garofalo

#10. Where oppression does not completely and permanently break the spirit, has it not a natural tendency to produce retaliatory pride and contempt?

C.S. Lewis

#11. Once the fire from the retaliatory strike dies down, the American people are going to find out that it is the Clinton Administration's wrongheaded policies that resulted in the creation of this terrorist haven in Afghanistan in the first place.

Dana Rohrabacher

#12. No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

Chris Bohjalian

#13. We are literally releasing the carbon dioxide that nature had locked up over a hundred million [years] down below the Earth. And we're releasing all that carbon dioxide now at a rate a million times faster [than it accumulated].

Thom Hartmann

#14. I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.

Tom Ford

#15. Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

John Knowles

#16. Get off, you look ugly (to a blood splattered player during a game)

Peter Marshall

#17. Being yourself takes less energy than being someone else.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

Lisa Murkowski