Blackmail quotes

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◆ It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

- Tori Amos100

◆ You know what pressure is put on Belarus, ranging from open blackmail to attempted interference in our internal affairs from the West, and from small provocations to threat of extremist rallies from the opposition.

- Alexander Lukashenko99

◆ You know that what the Chadian government is doing is blackmail. That is exactly why they are saying if the World Bank does not give them money they are going to close the oil well.

- Ngarlejy Yorongar99

◆ Without the Free Democrats, there's no coalition and they've proven several times they can use this power to blackmail and coerce the Socialists.

- Zoltan Kiszelly99

◆ When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

- Philippe Val99

◆ The international community should not ignore such continued manifestations of Pakistani irresponsibility, loose talk and undiluted hostility towards India and the continued concoction of doomsday theory to justify Pakistan's use of nuclear blackmail.

- Nirupama Rao99

◆ There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years.

- Ivica Dacic99

◆ The vile blackmail by a band of criminal kidnappers must not be given the dignity of a political response. Italy is and must remain unified and together.

- Francesco Rutelli99

◆ We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

- George W Bush99

◆ God, it's 30 years, who wanted to go over it? But she gave me some of the most thoughtful sentences, about how she felt the suit was emotional blackmail. She always surprises me.

- Margaret Grossi99

◆ They refuse to pay blackmail to the county. Development rights are just what kneecaps are to the rest of us.

- Bruce Baird99

◆ Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

- Jean Cocteau99

◆ Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

- Ernst Thalmann99

◆ Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

- Benito Mussolini99

◆ The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

- Robert G Menzies99