Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

Evo Morales

In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.

Julia Ward Howe

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

Paul Johnson

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

Paul Cellucci

We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Erik Zabel

A perfect scenario for me would be a mass sprint of 14 or 15 riders.

Phillip Adams

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent

Lewis Thomas

We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses.

Kofi Annan

The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be described as 'weapons of mass destruction'.

Scott Ritter

Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.

Saxby Chambliss

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.

Leo Burnett

Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.

Mao Zedong

I am alone with the masses.

John F. Kennedy

The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an unacceptable strategic threat to the United States. . . . This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base - by the presence of these large, long-range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass-destruction - constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas. . . .

Joseph Lowery

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

John F. Kerry

We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

John F. Kerry

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

Frank Gaffney

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

Frank Carlucci

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

Gail Carriger

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Fred Thompson

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations

Jimmy Carter

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.

David Murray

The massive amounts of money they're spending means we can't get out of the way of it. Every time you turn around, there's a nasty new TV spot.

Henry Clay

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

There's a mass of mud and trees and rocks out there on the roadway.

Tim Wise

Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.

We are preparing for a massive relief operation,

Madeleine Albright

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

Dennis Kucinich

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

Edward Kennedy

There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.

Edward Kennedy

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

Barbara Tuchman

When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.