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• I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

  Richard Armitage

  Parent, Conservative, Wealthy

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• I'm the only honest person in Washington.

  Richard Armitage

  Honest, Persons, Honest Person

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• Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

  Richard Armitage

  Iran, Iraq, Population

  "Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 14, 2003.

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• As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.

  Richard Armitage

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  9/11 Commission Hearings, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 2004.

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• The inspectors also found Iraq had developed effective means for dispersing these materials: unmanned aerial vehicles, spray devices, special munitions. We don't know where any of it is. And the last 60 days of new inspections have turned up no additional information that could allay any concerns about this military capability.

  Richard Armitage

  Military, Mean, Iraq

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• There is no sign, not one sign, that the Iraqi regime has any intent to comply fully with the terms of Resolution 1441, just as it has failed to comply with previous U.N. Security Council resolutions. The international community gave Iraq one final opportunity to disarm peacefully, and that opportunity has run its course. Dr. Blix [Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector] told us on Monday that there has been no progress toward credible, verifiable disarmament.

  Richard Armitage

  Running, Monday, Opportunity

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• But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.

  Richard Armitage

  Iraq, Special, Empty

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• Well, first of all, I have to say that Iraq has already used weapons of mass destruction against her own people and against Iranians during their long war, so we know that weapons of mass destruction are existent with the Iraqis.

  Richard Armitage

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

  Richard Armitage

  Children, Trying, Adults

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• What we said publicly is that we know that Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons, he's used them; we know about his biological weapons programs; and in the nuclear equation, left to his own devices, with no fissile material, by the end of the decade, he'll have a nuclear weapon. But if fissile material is provided to Saddam Hussein, he'll have a nuclear weapon within a year, so I'd say the year is the outside timetable.

  Richard Armitage

  Years, Iraq, Nuclear

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• The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other deadly concoctions. This is addition to an extensive capacity to produce biological weapons, including anthrax and ricin, which is fatal within 24 to 36 hours of exposure.

  Richard Armitage

  Iraq, Agents, Metrics

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• Well, I think finding the weapons of mass destruction is going to be quite time consuming. I know we've uncovered some documents, we'll have to exploit them, and we're going to have to blanket a country the size of California and search, I think, quite rigorously, but we'll come up with them.

  Richard Armitage

  Country, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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• I did mega-training with ex-military men. I'd be in the gym for two hours after a 12-hour day on Spooks, and it was so hardcore I'd throw up. I stuffed myself with food and drank protein shakes to bulk up. I used to be a dancer, but I had to strap my weak ankles every day and strengthen my wrists so I could hold a machine gun. My body just wasn't up to it.

  Richard Armitage

  Military, Men, Gun

  "Richard Armitage: 'I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that.

  Richard Armitage

  Mass Destruction, Iran, Would Be

  "Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 14, 2003.

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