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U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction.

Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

Using your car as a weapon and impenetrable armor.

Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.

War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation.

Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

Weapons of mass destruction are always in the wrong hands.

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don’t belong on our streets.

Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.

We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.

Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.

We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is written' is the weapon used by the world's Redeemer. Let us keep close to the Word. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His messengers to testify. We know that their testimony is true.

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.

We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

We assess that there is no significant threat to the UK from nuclear weapons at present, but developments continue to be monitored closely. We remain committed to limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons through our international treaty obligations, and national programmes.

We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas.  His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox.

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

We do know, with absolute certainty, that Saddam Hussein is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.

We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.

We have concerns whenever we see people who have large stockpiles of weapons, or appear to be in the process of accumulating weapons and ammunition.

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

We have to be cognizant of the fact that they've had foreign fighters coming to volunteer for them, foreign money, foreign weapons, so we have to make this the top priority.

We in Europe ... do not consider the freedom to buy weapons a human right.

We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

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

We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.

We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons

We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons.

We're going jogging." "I don't run for recreation. I run when someone's after me with a weapon." "That can be arranged.

We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.