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The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

The five original nuclear weapon states I mentioned - U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia - under the NPT have committed to the achievement of the elimination of their nuclear arsenals through good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament - that's Article Six of the treaty.

The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.

The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

The idiot had shot their own dog. That’s what happened when the destructive potential of a man’s weapons exceeded his intelligence.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.

The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).

The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time.

The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

The mace prodded Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.

The maximalist demand of a complete ban on weapons, and the 'incremental steps' towards disarmament are both jammed. Will advancing IHL help both of these processes?

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.

The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.

The more patient we are, the closer the Iranians get to a nuclear weapon.

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media, the press.

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

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

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon.

The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.

There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.

There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.