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A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.

~Alva Myrdal

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Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.

~Ann Coulter

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The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes - outweighs the risk of error.

~Antonin Scalia

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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

~Barbara Deming

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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.

~C. Robert Kehler

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Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.

~Charles Horner

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You can distill deterrence down to two factors: capability and will.

~Chris Gibson

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When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterrence.

~Chris Gibson

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The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

~Chung Mong-Joon

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