Blackmail sayings

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◆ The aid cannot be a sword over the heads of the Palestinian people to blackmail our people.

- Esmail Haniya99

◆ It is general consensus [that corporate blackmail] is probably occurring more in Japan than it does in most of the other G-7 countries. There is going to be a lot more discussion, concern [and] focus on some the less ethical trading practices.

- James Fiorillo99

◆ As a result, we cannot guarantee that a plane set to ram into the Kremlin will be shot down or that a plane that terrorists are using to blackmail the government -- without any real plans to ram it into a sensitive facility -- is spared destruction.

- Viktor Ilyukhin99

◆ In 2003 the blackmail started. He started calling me and first said he was a private investigator. I quickly saw that he wasn't, that it was just a scheme to get money out of me. So, I went to the authorities and got them involved because I knew if I paid him, he'd be back in a month. I knew I wasn't going to do that the rest of my life.

- Kirk Talley99

◆ We won't respond to blackmail, ... this is certainly a politically motivated strike.

- Zoran Djindjic99

◆ The secretary reiterated what we have said before. We are not seeking to escalate this problem, but we are not going to give in to blackmail.

- Philip Reeker99

◆ There's a great potential for blackmail.

- Brett Shirk99

◆ Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

- Robin Morgan99

◆ We don't want the drug fight to be a political tool to defend geopolitical interests. We don't want a drug fight that is a pretext for the U.S. or other powers or governments ... to simply control (Bolivia's) government, blackmail or place conditions.

- Evo Morales99

◆ Greenmail is, quite logically, blackmail of a different color.

- David Wild99

◆ Oh, is this a blackmail, then?

- Gary Meyer99

◆ Eighty percent of our gas transits through Ukraine, which was the motive behind our Ukrainian colleagues' decision to start to blackmail us ... But we are ready to go to the Swedish court in the event of Ukraine's unsanctioned use of gas.

- Alexander Medvedev99

◆ Russia has a choice to make. No legitimate interest is served when oil and gas become tools of intimidation or blackmail, either by supply manipulation or attempts to monopolize transportation.

- Dick Cheney99

◆ Russia has shown it's not above the temptation of using some bargaining power or blackmail. It shows that if there is a way to get some political-economic advantages from a temporary weakness of your partner, the Russians will use it.

- Daniel Gros99

◆ Neither the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina nor the international community will accept such blackmail.

- Wolfgang Petritsch99