Mike Myers Quotes

I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion.

If they [terrorists] see a Western hostage can be sold for a couple of million dollars, they may conclude that by holding on to an American, they'll get some money out of us.

We're going to put Hulu ahead of you, unless you pay up.

Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.

Dear Mom and Dad, Leave $50,000 in a bag under the bridge on Decatur Street. If there is no bridge on Decatur Street, please build one.

Always I pay. Always I pay. How do you know Gelli? What do you want? How much do you want?

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?

Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.

Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation's hijackings would involve demands for ransom. Barkley himself was declared incompetent to stand trial in November 1971, at which point he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Georgia.

I'm really not good blackmail material.

We won't make concessions [to terrorists] but other governments can make them on our behalf.

… a blackmailer and psychopath.

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

We know that there are programs coming up that he wants, and wants badly. And the only way that we will get back the programs is to hold them for ransom.

We want Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!

I have got you, you Christian dogs. You shall eat stones.

These are horrible choices. On the one hand if you don't pay the ransom, you are putting the lives of the hostages in almost certain danger. On the other hand, if you do pay the ransom, you are enabling and increasing the likelihood of the kind of behavior that caused the problem in the first place.

The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.

The biggest threat that we face right now is not a nuclear missile coming over the skies. It's in a suitcase. This is why the issue of nuclear proliferation is so important. It is the - the biggest threat to the United States is a terrorist getting their hands on nuclear weapons.

Doctor, feel my purse.