Hans Blix Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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• 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

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

  Hans Blix

  Tools, Interviews, Certain

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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.

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  Pregnancy, Long, United States

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• For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It is high time that the five nuclear-weapon states take seriously their commitment to negotiate toward nuclear disarmament.

  Hans Blix

  Military, War, Commitment

  Hans Blix (2008). “Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters”, p.37, MIT Press

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.

  Hans Blix

  People, Age, Witch

  "Blix criticises UK's Iraq dossier". BBC Radio 4's Today programme Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. September 18, 2003.

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• 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

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