Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Blair

Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.

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.

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'.

Nancy Pelosi

I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was one of my top priorities. I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein. ... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.

Nancy Pelosi

That's why they (the Bush administration) had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.

Jose Maria Aznar

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

Jose Maria Aznar

Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable

John Bolton

The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is clear that Iran is cynically manipulating gullible (or equally cynical) Europeans to advance its development of weapons of mass destruction.

Lisa Randall

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is,

John Ralston Saul

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

John Olver

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

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. . . .

Pauline Kael

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

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.

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.

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

Mao Zedong

I am alone with the masses.

Susan Sontag

Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

Thomas Jefferson

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

Richard P. Feynman

All mass is interaction.

Victoria Clark

One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.

S. Jay Olshansky

Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.

Robert Goulet

And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.

Saddam Hussein

We do not have weapons of mass destruction.

Robert Kagan

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

Stephen Harper

It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely true and that's why we're not sending anybody to Iraq.

Stanislav Grof

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

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

Thomas Harris

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.