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• Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.

  Shintaro Ishihara

  Japan, Nuclear, Bombs

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• Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Truth Is, Hardest

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

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• Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Fear

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, War, Past

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

  Dick Cheney

  Iran, Order, Korea

  "Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 28, 2009.

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• At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo - slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.

  Bernard Cooper

  Space, Black, One Day

  Bernard Cooper (1996). “Truth serum: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin

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• If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Smile, Peace, Able

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational Life, Mean, Ends

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

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• Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Waiting, Luck

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• The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

  Hans Blix

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Kuwait, Baghdad, Knows

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• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Diversity, Brotherhood

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.

  Mark Hatfield

  Peace, Children, Feet

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• The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Dance, Book, Writing

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

  David Dinkins

  Fall, Israel

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• Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

  Bill Maher

  Iraq, President, Pouring

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• Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

  Howard Berman

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iran

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• I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

  Joe Lieberman

  Deployment, Support, Defense

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• National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

  Jacques Chirac

  Defense, Nuclear, Weapons

  "Putin Bends Clinton's Ear Hoping to Halt Missile Shield". www.nytimes.com. July 22, 2000.

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• America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Light, America, World

  "Democrats criticize 'go-it-alone foreign policy'", www.cnn.com. January 21, 2004.

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• The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Rivers

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• One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

  William J. Clinton

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Ethos

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.170, Best Books on

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• We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland, which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.

  Mike Pence

  Czech Republic, Defense, Shields

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Book, Reading

  "What’s So Scary About Smart Girls?" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. May 10, 2014.

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• I will vote for the first candidate who promises to use nuclear missiles against LinkedIn.

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Technology, Promise

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2012

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