John Bolton Quotes About Nuclear Weapons

Quotes about: Nuclear Weapons

• The Iranian government is the government that supplied the arms on the Karin-A to the Palestinian Authority several years ago, they are the world's largest central banker for terrorism, if they thought it was in their interest to give a terrorist group a nuclear weapon to use against America or against Israel, I don't think they'd hesitate.

  John Bolton

  Thinking, Years, America

  Source: humanevents.com

• The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

  John Bolton

  Iran, Nuclear, Weapons

• You have to negotiate from positions of strength. And right now with Iran, we're not negotiating from a position of strength. The Europeans are negotiating from the position of "Please give up your nuclear weapons program, and by the way if you do we'll give you several boatloads of carrots." The Iranians are quite willing to keep on negotiating on that line for a long time.

  John Bolton

  Giving Up, Iran, Long

  Source: humanevents.com

• North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

  John Bolton

  Korea, Nuclear, Weapons

• Iran has essentially mastered all of the complex science and technology that they need to have a completely indigenous nuclear weapons program. That means that our options on Iran are extremely limited, to regime change or as a last resort, the use of force.

  John Bolton

  Mean, Technology, Iran

  Source: humanevents.com

• Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.

  John Bolton

  Reality, Thinking, Nuclear

• The North Koreans will sell anything to anybody for hard currency. If Al Queda came up with enough dollars to buy a nuclear weapon from North Korea I don't have any doubt that the North Koreans would sell it to them.

  John Bolton

  Korea, Doubt, Dollars

  Source: humanevents.com

• If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.

  John Bolton

  Egypt, Iran, Turkeys

• I wouldn't give up on Russia, and with oil at $90 a barrel, they can refurbish their strategic capabilities and under an authoritarian regime, those nuclear weapons are still there and in the wrong hands we might have a problem again.

  John Bolton

  Giving Up, Oil, Russia

  Source: humanevents.com

• We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.

  John Bolton

  Years, Iraq, Nuclear

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