Capability Quote by John Bolton

[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

— George W. Bush

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

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

What we said publicly is that we know that Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons, he's used them; we know about his biological weapons programs;…

— Richard Armitage

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

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

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

There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five…

— Jay Rockefeller

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of…

— Madeleine Albright

There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five…

— Jay Rockefeller

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

Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network that can…

— Mohamed ElBaradei