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But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

Hans Blix
Pregnancy, Long, United States

I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.

Hans Blix
Thinking, Oil, Competition

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

Hans Blix
War, Kyoto Protocol, Iraq

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

Hans Blix
Information, Management, Intention
"Breakfast With Frost". BBC One, February 8, 2004.

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

Hans Blix
Tools, Interviews, Certain

There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.

Hans Blix
Rivers, People, East
"Blix: I Was Smeared by the Pentagon". Interview with Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2003.

I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media. Not that I cared very much.

Hans Blix
Media, Nasty, Spread
"Blix: I Was Smeared by the Pentagon". Interview with Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2003.

We have not found any smoking guns.

Hans Blix
Gun, Smoking, Found
News conference, New York, N.Y., 9 Jan. 2003

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

Hans Blix
War, Mean, Autumn

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