Weapons Quotes - Page 3

• Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.

  Robert Kagan

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Administration

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• As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Nuclear Terrorism, United States

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• Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has lost its will. He will rebuild his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. And some day, some way, I am certain, he will use that arsenal again, as he has ten times since 1983.

  Sandy Berger

  Believe, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• He tried to fool the United Nations, and did for 12 years, by hiding these weapons. And so, it's going to take time to find them. But we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them, or hid them, we're going to find out the truth.

  George W. Bush

  Years, Iraq, Fool

  George W. Bush's Remarks at Lima Army Tank Plant in Lima, Ohio, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 24, 2003.

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• Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

  Samuel Butler

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Atheism, Proud, Facts

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• I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.

  Ari Fleischer

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Press Briefing with Ari Fleischer, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 10, 2003.

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• I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.

  Kenneth Adelman

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

  Omar Bongo

  Sacrifice, Men, World

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• Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

  Hermione Gingold

  Funny, Women, Fighting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas.

  George W. Bush

  War, Iraq, Mass Destruction

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• Women's weapon, water-drops.

  O. Henry

  Water, Drop Of Water

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• We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Believe, Wmds In Iraq

  Senate debate on using military force against Iraq, October 9, 2002.

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• We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Iraq, Wmd

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• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Technology, Iraq

  "Where Bush got his marching orders" by Jack Ammann, www.cnet.com. October 16, 2004.

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• Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

  Al Gore

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.

  Ari Fleischer

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.

  Tommy Franks

  War, Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons.

  Robert Byrd

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Warfare

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• He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.

  Henry Waxman

  Past, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.

  Andy Borowitz

  Gun, Thinking, Medicine

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jun 28, 2012

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• When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.

  Andy Griffith

  Respect, Fear, Gun

  "Fictional character: Andy Taylor". TV Series "The Andy Griffith Show", 1960-1968.

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• The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Mistake, Gun, Rights

  "Ninth Circuit Confirms a 2nd Amendment Right to Carry" by Michael James Barton, www.nationalreview.com. February 14, 2014.

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