Before Quote by Tom Malinowski

We're not looking at banning all weapons.

— Gary Ackerman

War is used to regulate humanity. Nations in possession of the best weapons are on top of the food chain.

— Fabian Abeku Spada Amoo

Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

— Howard Metzenbaum

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject…

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— John F. Kennedy

It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

— John F. Kerry

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

— Herman Kahn

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

— Joe Biden

The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

— George W. Bush

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

— Joseph Rotblat

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

— Jacques Chirac

Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but…

— Kofi Annan