Country Quote by Oscar Arias

The problem with basing weapons sales on strategic interest is that these interests tend to shift over time, while weapons are durable goods that…

— Oscar Arias

Britain is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, after the States. There's a lot of money in weapons deals. We sell…

— Paul Conroy

We are calling on countries that supply weapons to comply with certain restrictions: not to sell weapons to human rights abusers, not to sell…

— Oscar Arias

The problem is that the global arms trade is entirely free of international regulation. In a world in which the flow of consumer goods…

— Hilary Benn

From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or…

— Eduardo Galeano

80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of…

— Amartya Sen

Why are deadly weapons being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering on individuals and society? Sadly, the answer, as we all…

— Pope Francis

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be…

— Jo Brand

Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

— Judy Collins

As the world's leading military and arms supplier, the U.S. is also the biggest producer of less than lethal weaponry.

— Abby Martin

The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is kind of…

— Howard Zinn

Not only do we still engage in wars far away from our homes, which settle nothing and fuel extremism in the aftermath, we sell…

— Declan McKenna