Clear Quotes - Page 14

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.

Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace.

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty.

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt.

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

I want a man with nuclear power.

The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.

The only place we can find a clear, unmistakable message is in the Word of God, which we call the Bible.

Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.