Nuclear weapons Quotes

There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.

— Rush Limbaugh

The sole purpose of nuclear weapons must be to deter their use by others.

— Dianne Feinstein

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

— John F. Kennedy

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

— George Wald

Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.”

— Arundhati Roy

Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.

— Martin Rees

We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons.

— Ariel Sharon

Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.

— Yoshiro Mori

On many issues, including on the use of nuclear weapons, it is not clear where [Donald] Trump stands, due to his contradictory…

— Donald Trump

Under both international and domestic law, the United States is authorized to have nuclear weapons.

— Ted Lieu

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

If we hadn't had nuclear weapons, we would have had to have a much larger conventional army.

— John Mearsheimer

No amount of sanctioning will persuade North Korea to give up nuclear weapons, nor will China step up and solve the problem…

— Richard N. Haass

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

— Anonymous

“Earth is the play ground of our children and their children. We cannot allow it to be the play ground of the…

— Amit Ray

The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but…

— Dick Cheney

I happen to love America. I love this freedom and democracy. The fact is we are the ones who killed innocent people,…

— Robert Scheer

Imagine how difficult this issue would be if Iran had a nuclear weapon. And so therefore it's up to the international community,…

— George W. Bush

We have two thousand nuclear weapons on the trigger alert right now and Hillary Clinton wants to start an air war with…

— Jill Stein

Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human…

— Robert McNamara

In addition to deep divisions on issues such as trade, climate change, Middle East peace and nuclear weapons, Trump's attacks on leaders…

— Ben Rhodes

Everybody says, "Well, if it's a democracy, let them have nuclear weapons." America is the only country that has ever used nuclear…

— Robert Scheer

Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would…

— Noam Chomsky

It is clear that there are reasons for discontent in Iran - economic and political reasons. We have told the Iranian leadership…

— Sigmar Gabriel

Everything we've done has been designed to make sure that we address that number one priority. That's what the sanctions regime was…

— Barack Obama

Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian…

— Hillary Clinton

The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed. There's about four minutes…

— Hillary Clinton

The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at…

— George Carlin

Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual,…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The list of American grievances is long: Pakistan developed nuclear weapons while promising the United States that it would not; the United…

— Husain Haqqani

The danger of Iran is if you listen to what the Ayatollah is saying, to what the Mullahs are saying, rational self-preservation…

— Ted Cruz

“The fact is that the estimate of fatalities, in terms of what was calculable at that time—even before the discovery of nuclear…

— Daniel Ellsberg

And as Americans, we must ask ourselves: Are we really so different? Must we stereotype those who disagree with us? Do we…

— Dave Berry

“How could the vacuum, which has nothing in it, have any energy at all? The answer comes from another equation: Einstein's famous…

— Charles Seife

“Global climate change, over-consumption of natural resources, terror-fueled wars that led to xenophobia—these were our ancestors’ mistakes. Nations were starving to death,…

— Courtney Praski

“We can contain these threats with the right regulatory frameworks. We always have.” Anatole responded, “These are not our grandfather’s threats. Even…

— J.J. Wisdom

“I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as…

— Phillip Adams

“Nukes and Peace It takes hundreds of years of hard work to build a civilization, and yet with the press of a…

— Abhijit Naskar