Able Quote by George W. Bush

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile…

— John Bolton

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball,…

— George W. Bush

Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to…

— John Sununu

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

— Edwin Meese

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to…

— George McGovern

[Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

— Dick Cheney

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

— Joschka Fischer

We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium…

— Dick Cheney

We now have irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently…

— Dick Cheney

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

— Peter DeFazio

When my friend talks about fissile material, they have to take this highly enriched uranium, get it from 20 percent up, then they have…

— Joe Biden