Barack Obama Quotes

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.

If India builds the bomb we will eat grass or leaves, we will go hungry. But we will get one of our own.

We can not allow a terrorist state to become a nuclear power.

We should not approve an agreement that fails to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and does nothing to address Iranian behavior that threatens our allies and our interests.

While it's important to be open-minded, we don't have to be naive. Although Iran claims they are developing nuclear capability only for peaceful purposes, it's most difficult to believe them when taking a step back to assess the big picture of Iran's threats and actions.

No one gives a damn what Iran thinks on any significant issue. The only reason Iran is at the big boys' table is because of their nuclear weapons program.

It is urgent to prevent new U.S. aggression. The time is now for the world to say 'no' to U.S. threats of air attack against Iran, and to the very notion of a nuclear first-use 'option' by America or any other nation.

I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan and America do to oppress others and to deceive their own people is a dangerous world.

We [USA] don't have diplomatic leverage to eliminate every vestige of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran. What we do have the leverage to do is to make sure that they don't have a weapon.

Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back.

For now we must continue to strengthen our sanctions and pressure on North Korea.

The Middle East is the tinder box of the world, and to be able to remove a nuclear threat of any kind out of Iran, that would have been a big deal, very positive step forward.

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.

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

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

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.

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.