Chuck Fleischmann Quotes

I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world.

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.

Mass migrations of climate refugees erode borders and nations, creating a global playground for terrorists and traffickers.

One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential threats - the threats to the termination of the species basically and most other species - one of them, climate change, on that I think there's no basis for discussion.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, against its violence. However, if despair and humiliation continue in the population of more than one billion Muslims, the world will face increasing risks of conflicts and wars.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

Africa is a very dangerous place.

This century is going to be a very dangerous century.

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

This diffusion of nuclear weapons is terrible…terrible. Imagine a world with a large number of states with nuclear bombs.

Local conflicts can have global consequences.

Nations are much more dangerous than terrorists in the long run.

if we did possess a chemical bomb, we wouldn’t hesitate one second to use it.

I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.