Hans Blix Quotes - Page 2

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• We have not found any smoking guns.

  Hans Blix

  Gun, Smoking, Found

  News conference, New York, N.Y., 9 Jan. 2003

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• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  Hans Blix

  War, Mean, Autumn

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• The world has gotten so interwoven.

  Hans Blix

  World

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• But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

  Hans Blix

  Pregnancy, Long, United States

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• So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

  Hans Blix

  Tools, Interviews, Certain

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• I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.

  Hans Blix

  Thinking, Oil, Competition

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• It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

  Hans Blix

  Information, Management, Intention

  "Breakfast With Frost". BBC One, February 8, 2004.

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• For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It is high time that the five nuclear-weapon states take seriously their commitment to negotiate toward nuclear disarmament.

  Hans Blix

  Military, War, Commitment

  Hans Blix (2008). “Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters”, p.37, MIT Press

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• But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.

  Hans Blix

  People, Age, Witch

  "Blix criticises UK's Iraq dossier". BBC Radio 4's Today programme Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. September 18, 2003.

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