“Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.” ImportantMomentsUsedWeaponsPlatformsApartheidImportant MomentsLethal Weapon Author:Danny Glover
“When you have airplanes with precision weapons, striking hospitals in Aleppo and slaughtering innocent men, women and children, you're committing a war crime. So we need more sanctions against Russia. We should not relax them.” MenNeedsShouldChildrenWarCrimeWeaponsRussiaInnocentRelaxHospitalsAirplaneMen WomenSanctionsPrecisionWar CrimesInnocent Man Author:John McCain
“I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.” ThinkingMeanUseGovernmentReligiousWeaponsResistanceOppressionOppositionRepressionMute Author:Elie Wiesel
“It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.” PeopleHas BeensGovernmentWeaponsCommittedMassacres Author:Elie Wiesel
“Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.” MeanWeaponsKillingSensitive Author:Elie Wiesel
“I am against nuclear weapons, regardless of whether they are in the hands of Iran or Israel or any Western country. But obviously some states are allowed to have weapons of mass destruction while others are not.” CountryStatesHandsWeaponsMassDestructionWesternIsraelNuclearIranNuclear WeaponsWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.” MindPowerfulWeaponsMost PowerfulPowerful Weapons Author:Will Compton
“Television's getting better because people are investing more money and time and respect into it. But the secret weapon of television is that, because it's a slow burn, you get to meditate on things and develop them. As opposed to film, where you have an allotted amount of time and hopefully you can wrap it up in there.” PeopleFilmSecretTelevisionAmountWeaponsInvestingHopefullyGet BetterMore MoneyWraps Author:Zoe Kravitz
“I'm not a liberal, by the way.I believe I have every right to have guns. I just bought another huge weapon. A lot of people shouldn't own guns. I should. I have a safety record. Guns are a lot of fun out here.” PeopleWayShouldBelieveFunI BelieveRecordsHugeWeaponsGunSafetyShould I Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.” IfsWarEndsChoicesEasyCitiesWeaponsMassDestructionWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionAmerican Cities Author:James Inhofe
“The international institutions go around the world preaching liberalization, and the developing countries see that means open up your markets to our commodities, but we aren't going to open our markets to your commodities. In the nineteenth century, they used gunboats. Now they use economic weapons and arm-twisting.” WorldMeanCountryUseUsedEconomicCenturyArmsWeaponsInstitutionsInternationalAround The WorldDevelopingPreachingCommodityNineteenth CenturyDeveloping Countries Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Love is the most powerful weapon in the world for good. I really believe that.” WorldBelieveLove IsPowerfulWeaponsMost PowerfulPowerful Weapons Author:Gary Chapman
“Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWritingMeanDoeMomentsHelpingSeemsAgeLiteratureResponsibilityStreetsCitizensPaperWeaponsOne WayPensExclusive Author:Wole Soyinka
“I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at times has suggested, that giving heavy weapons, for example, to the Syrian opposition is a simple proposition that would lead us to be safer over the long term.” GivingLongTermSimpleExampleWeaponsHeavyLong TermOppositionGovernorsPropositionsRomneyAssadGovernor Romney Author:Barack Obama
“As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.” LongMadeStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesClearOfficeWeaponsNuclearIranNuclear Weapons Author:Barack Obama
“There's no question but that a nuclear Iran, a nuclear-capable Iran is unacceptable to America. It presents a threat not only to our friends but ultimately a threat to us to have Iran have nuclear material, nuclear weapons that could be used against us or used to be threatening to us.” AmericaUsedMaterialsWeaponsCapableThreatNuclearUsed To BeIranNuclear WeaponsThreateningNuclear Iran Author:Mitt Romney
“It is essential for America to understand what our mission is in Iran, and that is to dissuade Iran from having a nuclear weapon through peaceful and diplomatic means.” MeanAmericaEssentialsWeaponsMissionsNuclearPeacefulIranNuclear WeaponsDiplomatic Author:Mitt Romney
“When I came into office, the world was divided. Iran was resurgent. Iran is at its weakest point, economically, strategically, militarily, then since - then in many years. And we are going to continue to keep the pressure on to make sure that they do not get a nuclear weapon. That's in America's national interest and that will be the case so long as I'm president.” WorldYearsLongAmericaPresidentInterestCasesOfficeWeaponsPressureNuclearIranDividedNuclear WeaponsNational Interests Author:Barack Obama
“Pakistan is a nation, which, if it falls apart, if it becomes a failed state, there are nuclear weapons there and you've got terrorists there who could grab their hands onto those nuclear weapons.” IfsStatesHandsFallNationsWeaponsNuclearTerroristNuclear WeaponsPakistanFalling Apart Author:Mitt Romney
“I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria.” PeopleIfsTermSawsWillingRegretWeaponsAlsChemicalsSyriaAssessmentAssadDon't RegretChemical WeaponsBashar Al Assad Author:Barack Obama
“I would have I think made a bigger mistake if I had said, "Eh, chemical weapons. That doesn't really change my calculus." I think it was important for me as president of the United States to send a message that in fact there is something different about chemical weapons [in Syria].” IfsThinkingMadeSaidImportantDifferentStatesFactsPresidentUnitedMistakeUnited StatesMessagesWeaponsBiggerChemicalsSyriaCalculusChemical Weapons Author:Barack Obama
“What is true is [Bashar] Assad got rid of his chemical weapons.” WeaponsChemicalsAssadChemical Weapons Author:Barack Obama
“If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of ISIL or Nusra or, for that matter, the regime.” IfsMatterHandsRight NowWeaponsPercentChemicalsRegimesSyriaChemical WeaponsIsil Author:Barack Obama
“We had Hillary Clinton try and do a reset. We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, like lots of things, are done with uranium, including some bad things.” KnowsGivingTryingCountryDoneWeaponsPercentClintonIncludingNuclearRussiaOur CountryBad ThingsNuclear WeaponsResetUranium Author:Kevin Drum
“I think the Russians basically don't think the North Koreans and the Iranians have the capabilities to get weapon systems that can threaten them, or that if they do the Russians know how to handle them and that that's the reason that it's all the more important that Russians be involved in the sale of high-end conventional weapons, the Bushehr nuclear reactor in the case of Russia and Iran, and similar kinds of relationships.” IfsThinkingKnowsKindImportantEndsReasonCasesKnow HowInvolvedWeaponsNuclearRussiaHandleIranCapabilityConventionalNorth KoreaKoreanNorth KoreanNuclear Reactors Author:John Bolton
“The North Koreans will sell anything to anybody for hard currency. If Al Queda came up with enough dollars to buy a nuclear weapon from North Korea I don't have any doubt that the North Koreans would sell it to them.” IfsHardEnoughDoubtWeaponsSellsDollarsNuclearAlsNuclear WeaponsCurrencyKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:John Bolton
“Iran has essentially mastered all of the complex science and technology that they need to have a completely indigenous nuclear weapons program. That means that our options on Iran are extremely limited, to regime change or as a last resort, the use of force.” NeedsMeanUseLastsForceTechnologyWeaponsProgramComplexesNuclearIranRegimesNuclear WeaponsResortsIndigenousScience And TechnologyUse Of ForceRegime Change Author:John Bolton
“The Iranian government is the government that supplied the arms on the Karin-A to the Palestinian Authority several years ago, they are the world's largest central banker for terrorism, if they thought it was in their interest to give a terrorist group a nuclear weapon to use against America or against Israel, I don't think they'd hesitate.” IfsThinkingWorldGivingYearsUseGovernmentAmericaInterestGroupsArmsAuthorityWeaponsYears AgoIsraelTerrorismNuclearTerroristNuclear WeaponsPalestinianBankersIranianTerrorist Groups Author:John Bolton
“The real issue of dealing with proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical or biological is: What is your tolerance for risk? And my tolerance for risk for WMD proliferation is pretty close to zero. Because otherwise, we and our allies are at the mercy of regimes like Ahmadinejad and the mullahs in Tehran, or Kim Jong Il and the Hitler-in-the-bunker mentality in Pyongyang, or others who don't share our calculus on the value of human life.” HumansRealValuesIssuesRiskShareWeaponsMassDestructionMercyNuclearToleranceHuman LifeZeroChemicalsAlliesRegimesMentalityWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionKimCalculusProliferationWmdTehranBunkersMullahsValue Of Human Life Author:John Bolton
“You have to negotiate from positions of strength. And right now with Iran, we're not negotiating from a position of strength. The Europeans are negotiating from the position of "Please give up your nuclear weapons program, and by the way if you do we'll give you several boatloads of carrots." The Iranians are quite willing to keep on negotiating on that line for a long time.” IfsWayGivingLongLinesPositionWillingPleaseRight NowGiving UpWeaponsLong TimeProgramNuclearIranNuclear WeaponsCarrotsNegotiating Author:John Bolton
“I wouldn't give up on Russia, and with oil at $90 a barrel, they can refurbish their strategic capabilities and under an authoritarian regime, those nuclear weapons are still there and in the wrong hands we might have a problem again.” GivingStillsProblemHandsMightGiving UpWeaponsOilNuclearRussiaCapabilityRegimesNuclear WeaponsStrategicBarrels Author:John Bolton
“There was not a single Islamic slogan [in Egypt]. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.” MenWantFactsStrongRevolutionWeaponsMen And WomenIslamicDividesVery StrongSecularEgyptSlogansUnified Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“For the gun work, I had more of the basic training from the previous [movie John Wick] and the weapon work I have done in the past. In the second movie [John Wick 2], it really went on into another level. I've done the three gun training, where you worked with the pistol, rifle and shotgun. So that all is in the film.” DonePastFilmThreeLevelsWeaponsTrainingGunRiflesPistolsShotgunsBasic Training Author:Keanu Reeves
“John Wick does different techniques. Everything is available to him. There isn't one way of working a weapon. I like the reload with the flick going outside. That movement of getting rid of the magazine is to go sideways with it.” WayDoeDifferentMovementWeaponsAvailableTechniqueMagazinesOne WaySideways Author:Keanu Reeves
“The fact is that one significant way the Iranians have a posture different from the North Koreans, the North Koreans basically are saying we have a nuclear program. We are seeking weapons. We have produced weapons. We're proud of the fact that we have weapons.” WayDifferentFactsProudWeaponsProgramSeekingNuclearSignificantNorth KoreaKoreanPostureNorth Korean Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“The more patient we are, the closer the Iranians get to a nuclear weapon.” WeaponsPatientNuclearNuclear Weapons Author:Charlie Rose
“The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.” PeopleCountryUseJoySpiritBlackMoralCreativityWeaponsCapacityClarityAfrican AmericanBlack PeopleBoundlessHallelujahAmerican Spirit Author:Van Jones
“With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.” IfsThinkingRealWould BeNumbersWeaponsKillingPopulationSpreadNuclearPreparationNuclear WeaponsSmallpox Author:Bill Gates
“We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear weapons.” PeopleWayNeedsWeaponsNuclearNuclear WeaponsEpidemicsPreventionPreparednessCooperating Author:Bill Gates
“The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context.” Would BeMilitaryProtectWeaponsAmendmentsSecond Amendment Author:Ted Cruz
“It should be appreciated that if the arrangement on Iran's nuclear program collapses after being so patiently negotiated, and successfully implemented since 2014 despite the intense opposition of Netanyahu's Israel and its American loyalists in Congress, it would be widely perceived around the world as a huge setback in the search for regional stability and the struggle to prevent any further spread of nuclear weapons.” IfsWorldShouldWould BeStruggleHugeWeaponsProgramCongressIsraelSpreadNuclearIntenseDespiteAround The WorldOppositionIranStabilityCollapseNuclear WeaponsArrangementsAppreciatedSetbackLoyalists Author:Richard A. Falk
“Over and over again we learn that Obama nor any of his people high up in whatever bureaucracy can accomplish any of these things. They can't do a website. They can't roll out Obamacare. They can't improve health care. They can't run the VA. They can't run the IRS honestly. They turn as much of it as they can into a political weapon furthering the agenda of the president.” PeopleCareRunningPoliticalTurnsPresidentWeaponsAccomplishHonestlyHealth CareAgendasBureaucracyWebsiteObamacareIrs Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don`t think it`s crazy to think Kim Jong-un would use his weapons or certainly to use the weapons to try to get his, get his neighbors to do something they don`t want to do. I mean, he is not above blackmail.” ThinkingWantTryingMeanUseCrazyWeaponsNeighborKimBlackmail Author:Christopher R. Hill
“I think we`ve got to really get serious. And I`d put it right up there, the next four years, we are gonna get a deliverable nuclear weapon. And what is our president [Donald Trump] going to say that he did about it?” ThinkingYearsNextPresidentFourSeriousTrumpWeaponsNuclearFour YearsNuclear Weapons Author:Christopher R. Hill
“Eisenhower provided the first break in the Cold War, by bringing Khrushchev to the United States, in humanizing the Soviets; and then Nixon, by making the opening to China; and then Reagan, even meeting in Reykjavik with Gorbachev and acknowledging that nuclear weapons are a horror. So I won't accept that Republicans just escalate. Republicans, at least when they were more moderate, they were maybe even more isolationist, they sometimes brought sanity to the debate. We don't have that now. We have - all these Republicans have gone off the neoconservative deep end.” FirstsWarEndsSometimesStatesUnitedAcceptingBreakUnited StatesGoneColdRepublicanHorrorWeaponsMeetingsChinaNuclearDebateOpeningSanityNuclear WeaponsCold WarModeratesGorbachevReykjavik Author:Robert Scheer
“Everybody says, "Well, if it's a democracy, let them have nuclear weapons." America is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons. We're the only ones, this democracy, our great democracy.” IfsWellsCountryAmericaUsedDemocracyWeaponsNuclearNuclear Weapons Author:Robert Scheer
“I happen to love America. I love this freedom and democracy. The fact is we are the ones who killed innocent people, men, women and children, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons, weapons that should have never been used, should have never been developed in the first place, you know?” PeopleKnowsMenShouldFirstsChildrenFactsHappensAmericaUsedDemocracyWeaponsShould HaveNuclearInnocentNuclear WeaponsMen WomenHiroshimaHiroshima And Nagasaki Author:Robert Scheer
“Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even the most primitive kind of the Hiroshima, Nagasaki, you wouldn't have a Manhattan. There wouldn't be a democracy of any kind in America.” IfsWorldKindAmericaDemocracyCivilizationWeaponsTradeNuclearNuclear WeaponsPrimitiveThreateningManhattanHiroshimaWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Robert Scheer
“With regard to nuclear weapons, it's kind of hard to say. [Donald Trump] is said lots of things. The national security experts are terrified. But they're more terrified by his personality than by his statements.” KindSaidHardSecurityPersonalityTrumpWeaponsRegardNuclearStatementsExpertsNuclear WeaponsTerrifiedNational Security Author:Noam Chomsky
“Over the years, there's been case after case when there were very narrow decisions that had to be made about whether to launch nuclear weapons in serious cases. What is this guy [Donald Trump] going to do if his vaunted negotiating skills fail, if somebody doesn't do what he says? Is he going to say, "Okay we'll nuke them? We're done?"” IfsYearsMadeDoneGuyDecisionCasesFailingSeriousTrumpSkillsWeaponsOkayNuclearNuclear WeaponsThis GuyNegotiatingNukes Author:Noam Chomsky