Bomb Quotes

"Anyone who bombs is my friend"

"A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs"

Kenneth Clark, Author

"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force"

William Blum, Author

"An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'"

Willem Dafoe, Actor

"We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys"

Bruce Sterling, Writer

"And besides, I'm so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they'd have to clear out the whole neighborhood"

Ernst Zundel, Activist

"I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all"

Les Baxter, Musician

"They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City"

Philip Morrison, Scientist

"I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb"

Sandra Oh, Actress

"We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops"

Simon Le Bon, Musician

"It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here"

Richard Jewell, Celebrity

"We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women"

Philip Morrison, Scientist

"The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs"

Jerome Cady

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

Shintaro Ishihara, Politician

"We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened"

Lanford Wilson, Playwright

"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb"

Marcel Pagnol, Dramatist

"I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism"

Pete Stark, Politician

"Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear"

Andrew Motion, Poet

"David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music"

Eddie Van Halen, Musician

"I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised"

Sylvia Kristel, Actress

"Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs"

Tom Udall, Politician

"Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at"

Kathy Griffin, Comedian

"We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?"

Patty Murray, Politician

"However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system"

Kenneth Clarke, Politician

"If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser"

Ian Hacking, Philosopher

"We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other"

Peter Hain, Politician

"World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq"

Kenneth Clarke, Politician

"Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?"

David Letterman, Comedian

"The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old"

Sidney Altman, Scientist

"The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons"

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Politician

"Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel"

David Letterman, Comedian

"This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more"

David Eddings, Author

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