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"Democrats won`t acknowledge the existence of "an imminent threat" any place in the world until a nuclear missile is 12 minutes from New York. And then we`ll never have the satisfaction of saying "I told you so" because we`ll all be dead. " July 19, 2006.

- Ann Coulter

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.

- Bianca Jagger

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

We showcased a utterly immoral, grotesquely greedy, decadent society that we felt was imminent.- On making Shampoo (1975) with Warren Beatty and Robert Towne

- Julie Christie

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It`s a delusion to think it`s gone away.

- Kevin Costner

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

- Fiona Shaw

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

- Dennis Kucinich

Barring a U.S. attack, it appears imminent that Iran`s euro-dominated oil bourse will open in March 2006, ... Logically, the most appropriate U.S. strategy is compromise with the EU and OPEC towards a dual-currency system for international oil trades.

- Brian Miller

Barring a US attack, it appears imminent that Iran`s euro-dominated oil bourse will open in March, 2006, ... Logically, the most appropriate US strategy is compromise with the EU and OPEC towards a dual-currency system for international oil trades.

- Brian Miller

Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?

- Sean Hannity

August is rerun season, so we`ve seen this episode before...and it has the same ending: nothing is imminent.

- James Kennedy

If we are to rule out ... `degrading techniques` to be used against prisoners or terrorists, then I think we could thoroughly dismiss any possibility of getting information about an imminent terrorist attack, period.

- Steve Emerson

Our intent is to protect crime victims who are in imminent danger of losing their lives. This does not put more guns on the street. This will not create the OK Corral.

- Rick Jones

To a greater extent than the Bush administration, the media was responsible for creating the fantasy that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States,

- John Nichols

IDC realized over a year ago that the Linux movement was imminent, and at that point in time decided to pull Linux out of the ubiquitous and otherwise ignored `Other` category in operating environment reporting, ... The reasons IDC decided to treat Linux as it would any other operating system included the belief that Linux had potential to progress beyond its current state, demand-side studies that showed marked Linux usage in a number of industries, and customer demand for expanded Linux research.

- William Peterson

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

- Alan Sandals

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

- Albert Rasho

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

- Alderman Dana McLendon

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

- Aluf Ben
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No deal or announcement is imminent ...,

- Ann Brick

The district attorney said the officer was in imminent danger, but in the same breath, he said we don`t know where he was standing.

- Ann Plato

We have not advanced the process much further. We are desperately anxious to avert a catastrophe for the airline. We have made some progress but not sufficient to regard a settlement as imminent.

- Anne Marie Thornton

If a citizen threatens an officer or another citizen with death or imminent bodily harm, an officer has to react. I think our (officer-involved shooting) level is not out of line.

- Annette Zella

No one should assume the imminent release of these photos at this point,

- Arthur Berger

We think it is imminent that you will get a new Pixar-Disney deal.

- Ashlee McGee

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

- Ludwig von Mises