tough stance Quotes

On Islam, it is true that I am tough. Perhaps tougher than I should be if my only aim was to get votes.

Elected president of the Republic, I would immediately, and with no hesitation, carry out the battle plan against Islamist terrorism and against judicial laxity.

I've said I want the meanest, toughest SOB I can find to protect America. And so that's why Trump's tone doesn't bother me.

Let there be no doubt: we will be tough on terror wherever it strikes.

There is one thing on which Arik will make no concessions: terrorism.

There's been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.

To those who would criticize our tough stance, I would point out that the United States has demonstrated not merely with words but with its actions that we stand firmly behind Article 5, the mutual defense commitment.

No one doubts that Donald Trump is willing to walk away from a deal if it's a bad one. No one doubts that he's willing to punish our enemies if they transgress U.S. interests, whereas, with Hillary Clinton, she is very predictable.

This guy [Donald Trump] is not going to get pushed around.

I want people to know that I am tough on illegal immigration and we are working to provide needed border security.

We have adopted zero-tolerance policy against terrorism. We have not fed biryani to terrorists.

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied.

You have a great leader now, you have a great president, you have a tough president. He's not gonna be easy on people that are breaking the laws and people that show this tremendous violence. So I really have a feeling that you're gonna have a very, very peaceful and beautiful Paris.

If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time.

A person that's going to be super, super tough on Russia is President Donald J. Trump.

That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've got to get tough, man. You know what? It's not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

I'm not in the business of being "friendly."

Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.

I'll stand with President Trump and get tough on illegal immigration.

It would be easier to be tough on Russian than make a deal. I don't know if we'll make a deal.

I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.