Nuclear Quotes - Page 34

• Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, been talking to my cat on the Internet.

  William J. Clinton

  Cat, Kids, Science

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1968, Best Books on

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• "Nuclear" is nothing but trouble. Do you say "new-clear" or do you say "nuke-you-ler"? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.

  Paul Feig

  Missing, Nukes, Faces

  "Test Marketing a New Term..." by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2005.

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• I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

  Robert M. Gates

  Thinking, Iran, Race

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• I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

  Robert M. Gates

  Country, Zero, Mean

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• Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.

  Robert M. Gates

  Believe, People, Weapons

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• Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Ideas, Energy, Growing

  "'Butting Heads with the Americans Doesn't Do Any Good'". Interview with Christian Schwärgerl and Markus Feldenkirchen, www.spiegel.de. January 29, 2008.

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• We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Jobs, Party, Fighting

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• Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Oil, Coal, Use

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Support, Fusion, Sun

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.

  Hu Jintao

  Issues, Peaceful, Attention

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

  Tarja Halonen

  Keys, Miracle, Nuclear Power

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• I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Believe, Moving

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• And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Two, Light, Korea

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• It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Space, Self, Land

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• But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

  Dennis Kucinich

  America, Weapons, Way

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• I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear. I seek a society non-reliant on nuclear energy, a society that can do without nuclear energy, and Japan can prove a role model. It’s possible.

  Naoto Kan

  "Naoto Kan, Ex-Prime Minister: Japan Was Unprepared For Fukushima Nuclear Crisis", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2012.

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• It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.

  Naoto Kan

  Japan, Doe, Models

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• The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.

  Naoto Kan

  Zero, Energy, Realizing

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• When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

  Naoto Kan

  Thinking, Needs, World

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• The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

  Naoto Kan

  Country, India, Movement

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• You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

  Peter MacKay

  Ambition, Israel, Iran

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• I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Mother, Thinking, Nuclear Families

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Agency, Iran, Community

  "The case for western missile defence" by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2010.

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• You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Country, War, Communication

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