Nuclear Quotes - Page 37

• We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security.

  John Glenn

  Names, People, Doe

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• The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.

  John Dingell

  Law, Doe, Waste

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• By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

  Dalai Lama

  Facts, Destruction, Danger

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• To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Self, Long

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• When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Lasting Happiness, Great Love

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• Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

  Dalai Lama

  Discipline, Impatience, Danger

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• Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.

  James Hillman

  Moving, Ideas, Our World

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

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• While it may be theoretically possible to demonstrate the risks inherent in any treaty... the far greater risk to our security are the risks of unrestricted testing, the risks of a nuclear arms race, the risks of new nuclear powers.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Risk, May

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning?

  Sam Nunn

  War, Fire, Russia

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• Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Mistake, Weapons, Should

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• If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

  Carl Sagan

  Winter, Science, Blanket

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• Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.

  George Clooney

  Growing Up, War, Hopeful

  "TOMORROWLAND: George Clooney, Damon Lindelof, and Brad Bird on the Boldness of Originality and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 19, 2015.

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• Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

  Lindsey Graham

  Fashion, Lying, Trying

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating.

  Lindsey Graham

  Cheating, Lying, Ambition

  "What's at stake for US as Saudi-led airstrikes pound Yemen?". "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2015.

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• The Iranians have shared every weapon they've ever developed with terrorist organizations. I fear they would share nuclear technology with a terrorist organization that would one day come here.

  Lindsey Graham

  Technology, Organization, One Day

  "What's at stake for US as Saudi-led airstrikes pound Yemen?". "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2015.

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• Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back.

  Steve Scalise

  Moving, Iran, Concern

  "Gov. Walker on CPAC, record in Wisconsin; Rep. Scalise talks DHS funding fight". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.

  Rudy Giuliani

  War, Hands, Want

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• The nuclear industry is currently undergoing a rebirth. The uranium market will remain tight for at least the next three years.

  Paul Gray

  Years, Three, Next

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• I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.

  Al Gore

  Football, Military, Suitcases

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• America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

  Barack Obama

  Depression, War, Struggle

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.

  Shaukat Aziz

  Technology, Pakistan, Pouring

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• I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives such as coal gasification, clean coal, nuclear energy and, finally, credits for achieving new levels of efficiency and conservation.

  Pete Domenici

  Thinking, Wind, Energy

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• The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not keep up their terms of the agreement. They received aid in return for promising not to develop nuclear weapons. They took the aid, they ran with the aid and then they developed a nuclear weapons anyway.

  Ari Fleischer

  Agreement, Korea, World

  "Powell sees no progress from North Korean proposal", www.cnn.com. April 29, 2003.

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• The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Water, Navy

  "New Canada PM Challenges U.S. on Arctic Sovereignty", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2006.

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• The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy diversity; they don't create any incentives; they don't produce solar, hydro, nuclear.

  Frank Luntz

  Two, Common Sense, Diversity

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