Jamie Dimon Quotes

By God, war is not an option for two nuclear countries.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

It is the ultimate end of absurdity for the arms race to go on.

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?

Disarmament has become the urgent imperative of our time. I do not say this because I equate the absence of arms to peace, or because I believe that bringing an end to the nuclear arms race automatically guarantees the peace, or because the elimination of nuclear warheads from the arsenals of the world will bring in its wake that change in attitude requisite to the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations. Disarmament is vital today, quite simply, because of the immense destructive capacity of which men dispose.

The engagement policy of détente made the United States number two in a world where it is dangerous, if not fatal, to be second best

It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

If Obama commits thermonuclear war, I won't have to worry about November and neither will you.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

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.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945.