Nuclear Quotes · Page 8

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

— Ted Lieu

There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.

— Jill Stein

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

— Bill Gates

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.

— Leslie Dewan

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

— John Mearsheimer

Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.

— Hendrik Poinar

We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.

— Barack Obama

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

— Dianne Feinstein

We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction.

— George W. Bush

It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons.

— Ben Cohen

When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water…

— William Scranton

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose…

— Barack Obama

I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic…

— Germaine Greer

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

— Shirin Ebadi

[Liberals] think they can pass a law eliminating guns and nuclear weapons, but teenagers having sex is completely beyond our control.

— Ann Coulter

Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying…

— Lindsey Graham

The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit…

— Edward Snowden

The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must…

— Jacques Monod

Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before…

— John F. Kennedy

The Iranians are not going to cede any kind of power. They're not going to cede any kind of control. [Hassan] Rouhani…

— Andrea Tantaros

Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has…

— Nancy Gibbs

We will achieve North America energy independence by 2020, by taking full advantage of our oil, our gas, our coal, our renewables…

— Mitt Romney

Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of…

— Enrico Fermi

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and…

— James Buchan

In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980,…

— Helmut Schmidt

It should be appreciated that if the arrangement on Iran's nuclear program collapses after being so patiently negotiated, and successfully implemented since…

— Richard A. Falk

Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows…

— Martha Gellhorn

I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear…

— Mark Oliphant

The United States was the one nullifying any attempt in the Security Council of the United Nations to sanction those fascist governments,…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that…

— John Burroughs

On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time…

— Edward Condon

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.

— Oscar Arias

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

— Hayao Miyazaki

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

— Rush Limbaugh

The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.

— Harry S. Truman

The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.

— John Burroughs

Iran has never, is not, and will never seek nuclear weapons.

— Hassan Rouhani

The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.

— Dr. John

We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.

— Michael Douglas