Barack Obama Quotes

Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons, but no one is talking about it. The world doesn't want nuclear weapons - not in Israel, not in the Middle East and not anywhere in the world.

We probably could more successfully resolve the North Korean nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. We could successfully resolve what American leaders seem to perceive as an Iranian nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning.

Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and China, that their first use of nuclear weapons would result in the devastation of their nation.

We are convinced that the only way to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue is through negotiations.

The world should be very clear about making sure that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, period.

President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.

Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.

I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

We have a moral imperative to keep up the search for something better than mutual assured destruction.

If we wish to convince countries like Iran that the development of nuclear weapons is not in their best interest, we need to demonstrate that maintaining or enhancing our own arsenal is not in our interest.

China, North Korea's last ally in the world has just voted agaisnt them [in the United Nations]. What would you do if you thought every country in the world was against you and you wanted to survive? You would buy insurance. And the best insurance you could get to prevent invasion would be nuclear weapons, and that is just what North Korea has done. So now, when the President [Trump] threatens them, what do they do? They go out and buymore insurance.

The JCPOA is working - preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. It's time for the Republicans to start working, too.

Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran.

Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that militarily.

I do not believe the efforts of the international community to stop Iran's nuclear program will bear fruit.

My colleagues and I met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli military and security officials to discuss our votes against the terrible Iran deal and to reaffirm our commitment to our longstanding alliance.

After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.