Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine Albright

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

Ari Fleischer

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.

Al Gore

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

Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

Colin Powell

I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.

Donald Rumsfeld

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

Daniel Okrent

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

Hillary Clinton

If left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well, effects American security.

Hillary Clinton

Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations.

Dick Cheney

The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.

Dick Cheney

America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction."..."We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems ballistic missiles that had been prohibited by the United Nations.

Carl Levin

We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a way which keeps the world together and that achieves our goal which is removing the... defanging Saddam..

Armstrong Williams

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

George W. Bush

Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere... Nope, no weapons over there... Maybe under here.

Dennis Kucinich

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

Charles Rangel

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

Bill Maher

Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

Madeleine Albright

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Alexander Yakovenko

Moscow sees no reason to submit the question of the Iranian nuclear program to the UN Security Council,

Ehud Barak

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

Ehud Olmert

Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.

Ehud Olmert

It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

Ken Stern

To use this as a method for punishing Iran for its nuclear ambitions seems to be not well thought out.

Tetsu Emori

Traders are looking at the Nigerian and Iranian issues. They don't like to sell at present.

Dick Cheney

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.