Weapon Quotes

"Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire"

Ferdinand Foch, Soldier

"The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness"

Harry S. Truman, President

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that"

George Wald, Scientist

"All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative"

Golda Meir, Leader

"In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"His foe was folly and his weapon wit"

Anthony Hope, Writer

"Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go"

Golda Meir, Leader

"Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that"

John McCain, Politician

"My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies"

Andy Roddick, Athlete

"Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work"

Angela Davis, Activist

"The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin"

Alexander Cockburn, Lawyer

"You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them"

Luke Scott, Athlete

"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription"

Norman Cousins, Author

"The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised"

Calista Flockhart, Actress

"Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect"

Lou Brock, Athlete

"The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed"

Steven Biko, Activist

"Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

"Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks"

John Yoo, Educator

"Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon"

Saddam Hussein, Criminal

"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people"

William L. Jenkins, Politician

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