Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

We will not negotiate with anyone about our weapons and defenses, and we will make and store as many weapons, facilities, and missiles as we need.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do.

Let no one expect us to disarm unilaterally. We are not a naive people.

The surest way to deter adversary aggression is to fully prepare for war.

Whoever believes that a symbolic tank parade on the alliance's eastern border will bring security is mistaken.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

We live in a dangerous world where rogue nations are developing longer range missiles. We have to make a strong effort at developing defenses against this threat.

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

I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now.

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve.

We must have universal military training because the one hope for a peaceful world is a powerful America… with adequate means to instantly check aggressors.

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological nation plans for it.

Fear begets suspicion and distrust and evil imaginings of all sorts, till each government feels it would be criminal … of its own country not to take every precaution [armament], while every Government regards every precaution of every other government as evidence of hostile intent.