“He is, and further than that, if he were subject to blackmail, it would have been before a lot of this stuff was publicly known,”
Richard Gephardt
“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 Lukashenko
“Oh, is this a blackmail, then?”
Gary Meyer
“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 Talley
“This is a community decision. What do they want? ... We're not trying to blackmail people, we're just trying to tell you where we're at.”
Cheryl Crates
“When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.”
Philippe Val
“Our nation does not surrender to blackmail.”
Alvin Hellerstein
