Quotes About Policy

Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.

There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon.

Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.

The assault weapon ban in this country should be reinstated.

Preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is one of the most important objectives of our national security policy, and I strongly advocated for and supported the economic sanctions that brought Iran to the negotiating table.

President-elect Biden is committed to the proposition that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon.

Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to use them.

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

If I'm able to communicate one thing to adults, it would be this: it should not be easier to purchase a gun than it is to obtain a driver's license, and military-grade weapons should not be accessible in civilian settings.

One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.

Iran has never, is not, and will never seek nuclear weapons.

Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.

American envoys came to see me before the crisis in Iraq and asked me to say that there were nuclear weapons in Iraq. I refused. They even told me that things would go well for Belarus in terms of investments, etc. All I had to do was to support them. I told them that I couldn't do it because I knew that there were no nuclear weapons there.

Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.

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

Military-assault weapons have no place in civilian hands.

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

We would not accept any country telling us who to buy weapons from and who not to buy from.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.

The sole purpose of nuclear weapons must be to deter their use by others.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.