Preempt Quotes

You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict. - Wangari Maathai

What's the big fuss about preemption? You'd shoot first if someone was planning to shoot you right? - Richard Perle

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America. - Louis Farrakhan

What I would prefer to see is something that would be uniform and preemptive [of state laws]. Otherwise, you have a very inconsistent application of the law, with some states requiring you to do nothing [and] some hammering you to the point of being unfair. - Kirk Herath

We don't think the inflation numbers are strong enough to justify a preemptive move and would bet against a hike next week. - Bill Evans

We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability. - Alan Greenspan