Justifications Quotes

We will continue to fight the scourge of terrorism against humanity and reject the culture of extremism and violence in any form or shape, from whatever source or place, regardless of justifications or motives, being fully aware of their dangers as a plague that threatens the peace and stability of the whole world. - Hosni Mubarak

There have been a lot of justifications for attacking Iraq. Most of them have turned out not to be true... The argument is: Did the capture of Saddam Hussein and the attack on Iraq make us safer? I said no during the campaign. I think it's very clear that the answer is no. - Howard Dean

There are growing voices in the nuclear power industry that support looking at alternatives to burying nuclear waste 90 minutes outside Las Vegas given the insurmountable obstacles facing Yucca Mountain. With each passing day there are fewer and fewer justifications for moving forward on efforts to bury nuclear waste in Nevada when on-site storage is safe, affordable and already in use. - Shelley Berkley

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second. - E. P. Thompson

The black coaching candidates were at least as strong, if not stronger, than those who were selected. Each team could say what their justifications were, but. . . it still shows that there's an uphill battle for African-American coaches. - Cyrus Mehri

Speculative activity will continue to dominate price movements, with fund interest based on justifications such as economic slowdown, inflationary concerns and hopes of Asian central bank buying and soaring physical demand. - Barclays Capital

Price dynamics in gold next year will continue to be largely determined by speculative interest, backed by a myriad of justifications like inflationary risks, energy-price led economic slowdown, expectations of a US dollar correction, soaring physical demand, supply-side constraints, hopes of large scale central bank buying and so on. - Yingxi Yu

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life. - Charles Vest

One of the justifications for this campaign is to preserve and expand the right of third parties and independent candidates to challenge the two-party duopoly system... I see it as a civil liberties issue of free speech. - Ralph Nader

Offered all sorts of positive, well-meaning, in my view misguided, justifications for a stance that is ... backward-looking, inward-looking, protectionist. - Peter Mandelson