Nuclear Weapons Quotes - Page 23

• Donald Trump is a person who has been very cavalier, even casual about the use of nuclear weapons.

  Hillary Clinton

  Nuclear, Use, Weapons

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• The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed. There's about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so. And that's why 10 people who have had that awesome responsibility have come out and, in an unprecedented way, said they would not trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes or to have his finger on the nuclear button.

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility, Order, People

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I don't think anybody who is already with Donald Trump is going to be peeled off by his not knowing about NATO or why Japan does not have nuclear weapons, or things of that sort.

  James Fallows

  Thinking, Knowing, Japan

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of the Middle Eastern peoples are Muslim and Israelis are not, so it is hardly in any position to become the leading power.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Military, Israel

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• You don't need to worry about Donald Trump and nuclear weapons. You need to worry about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They have authorized nuclear weapons for Iran.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Iran, Worry, Needs

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The world's state sponsor of terrorism is now on path, sanctioned by the United States, to create nuclear weapons. We are going to make it possible for them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  United States, Nuclear, World

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If you're gonna sit there and be worried about what Donald Trump would do with nuclear weapons, you've got to know that it's Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton who have made it possible for Iran to nuke up, and that's in nobody's best interests. That's not in the best interests of our ally, Israel. It's not in the best interests of ourselves.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Israel, Iran, Allies

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We have two thousand nuclear weapons on the trigger alert right now and Hillary Clinton wants to start an air war with Russia, a nuclear-armed power, over Syria as the means of addressing ISIS and the crisis in Syria.

  Jill Stein

  War, Mean, Isis

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. P

  Ralph Nader

  Military, Support, President

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• [Donald] Trump was born on June 14, 1946, less than a year after the first and, thus far, only nuclear weapons were used in war.

  David Krieger

  War, June, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• On January 20, 2017, Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, and he will be given the nuclear codes and the power to launch the U.S. nuclear arsenal, which is comprised of some 7,000 nuclear weapons. A military officer will always be close to Trump, carrying the nuclear codes in a briefcase known as the "football."

  David Krieger

  Football, Military, President

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• At one point, for example, [Donald Trump] argued that he knew much more than military leaders about the pursuit and defeat of ISIS. His assuredness of his own correctness seems also rooted in arrogance reflecting his fundamental insecurity. This insecurity and his belief in his own rightness, when combined with his success at making money, leads him to be self-reliant in his decision-making, which could result in his taking risks with threatening or using nuclear weapons.

  David Krieger

  Military, Self, Isis

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Two other personality traits could also make more likely [Donald] Trump's use of nuclear weapons: his impulsiveness and his lack of predictability.

  Donald Trump

  Two, Personality, Nuclear

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• On many issues, including on the use of nuclear weapons, it is not clear where [Donald] Trump stands, due to his contradictory statements.

  Donald Trump

  Issues, Nuclear, Use

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'd be the last one to use the nuclear weapons, because that's sort of like the end of the ballgame.

  Donald Trump

  Nuclear, Use, Weapons

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Perhaps the singular positive of [Donald] Trump's desire to improve the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Russia will lead to achieving progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

  David Krieger

  Russia, Desire, Progress

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It was about the compelling need to make countries get along to prevent war, in contrast with the totally petty and selfish bullshit that drives the individuals who are supposedly in charge of these countries. It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment.

  Jay Roach

  Country, Selfish, War

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment. Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance. It was definitely tapping into the Dr. Strangelove vibe, which is one of my three top favorite films or all time.

  Jay Roach

  Revenge, War, Believe

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There are nine countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. There are about 27,000 nuclear weapons total on the planet. The countries that have nuclear weapons deploy them ready for use and have doctrines saying that they would use them in certain circumstances.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Doctrine, Nuclear

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• There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think we should seize the opportunity of this time of stability and cooperation and move towards global elimination of nuclear weapons as indeed people like Henry Kissinger, and William Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Clinton, and Sam Nunn, former Senator, and George Schultz, former Undersecretary of State for Ronald Reagan. All of them recently called for achievement of a nuclear weapon-free world.

  John Burroughs

  Moving, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the armed services that are involved with nuclear weapons deployment, especially the naval submarine operations and also the air force's land-based ICBM operations. So they have a big lobby in Washington.

  John Burroughs

  Air, Land, Deployment

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• It doesn't seem to be that huge a commitment that would create, you know, some kind of really powerful constituency. But the history has been for the United States and Russia especially that nuclear weapons have kind of become part of the identity of the countries.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Powerful, Commitment

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• Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China - also were the original five countries to have nuclear weapons.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Russia, Historical

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• Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Views, India And Pakistan

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• Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for the elimination of nuclear weapons and work for their marginalization in the meantime, we say you have to diminish the political value that's attached to nuclear weapons in order to give them less (kind of) desirability in the eyes of governments that do not now have them, and thus to help stop their spread.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Eye, Government

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