Chemical Weapons Quotes

• We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

  Al Gore

  Country, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Gore speech, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 23, 2002.

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• Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.

  Joe Lieberman

  Pregnancy, Wmd, United States

  "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. August 4, 2002.

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• We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

  Richard Lugar

  Perfect, Accountability, Nuclear

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• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  Hans Blix

  Military, People, Biological Warfare

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• Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq's enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Real, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago - I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago - whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still hidden.

  David Petraeus

  War, Mean, Wmd

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• Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

  John Sununu

  Technology, Nuclear, Use

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• Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Fields, Doe

  "President: Iraqi Regime Danger to America is 'Grave and Growing'". Radio Address, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 5, 2002.

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• We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas.  His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Toxins, Weapons, Chemicals

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• I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known. We are finding more and more countries who are acquiring technology - not only missile technology - and are developing chemical weapons and biological weapons capabilities to be used in theater and also on a long range basis. So I think that is perhaps the greatest threat that any of us will face in the coming years.

  William Cohen

  Country, Believe, Technology

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• We have chemical weapons in America too, they're called meth and cocaine.

  Felipe Esparza

  America, Weapons, Cocaine

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• Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.

  Abdallah II

  Scare, Weapons, Chemicals

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• No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

  Joe Biden

  Children, Men, Innocent Man

  "Military strikes on Syria ‘as early as Thursday,’ US officials say". "NBC News", www.nbcnews.com. August 27, 2013.

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• At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Weapons, Chemicals, Ends

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?

  Bashar al-Assad

  Military, Use, Weapons

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I think if Russia is really an honest signatory to the chemical weapons ban, if Syria wants to be, ultimately someone has to be responsible for killing civilians. And that's the hard part out of this.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Russia, Want

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• We're not sure that if there's chemical weapon used and who used it. We can't talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Weapons, Facts, Chemicals

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Israel produces and stores chemical weapons. So therefore the US will prevent the Chemical Weapons Convention from being imposed on the Middle East. But it's necessary to evade this by misrepresenting the convention, and I think maybe 100 percent of the media, or close to it, go along. But that's a critical issue. Actually, Syria's chemical weapons were developed largely as a deterrent to Israeli nuclear weapons. Also, not mentioned.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Media, Issues

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very probably true. At that point, what was at stake was what is called credibility. So if you read the political actors, political leadership, foreign policy commentary, they constantly point out accurately that US credibility was at stake, and we have to maintain US credibility. So therefore something had to be done to show you can't violate our orders.

  Noam Chomsky

  Order, Political, Done

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are a lot of weapons that we've developed which we've pulled back from - biological weapons, chemical weapons, etc. This may be the case with armed autonomous robotics, where we ultimately pull back from them.

  Peter Singer

  May, Weapons, Etc

  "Peter W. Singer’s Killer Robots". Interview with Eric Stoner, www.motherjones.com. January 29, 2009.

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• At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.

  Chris Kyle

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Nuclear

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• Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them against Islamic laws. Irans Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) in this connection had issued a decree that mass destruction weapons are prohibited by the Muslim religion. [. . .] Therefore we support the idea of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction[.]

  Ali Larijani

  Islamic, Mass Destruction, Iran

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• A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is no reason why nuclear weapons, which are more destructive, should not be comprehensively banned and thoroughly destroyed. All it takes to reach this objective is strong political will.

  Jiang Zemin

  Strong, Political Will, Nuclear

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• Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Rain, Tanks

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• We achieved a deal with the Russians that didn't wind up in two days of strikes that would have sent a, quote, "message," but would not have removed the weapons. We struck a deal to get all of the declared weapons out of Syria. Never before in a conflict has that ever happened, that during the conflict weapons of mass destruction are taken out of the zone of conflict. And thank God we did that, because if we hadn't done that, today ISIL would have those chemical weapons in large parts of the country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Taken, Two

  Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe, 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

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