John Roos Quotes

Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.

A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons.

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

Our nuclear free status is a statement of our belief that we and our fellow human beings can build the institutions which will one day allow us all to renounce the weapons of mass destruction. We are a small country and what we can do is limited. But in this as in every other great issue, we have to start somewhere.

No single nation should pick and choose which nations holds nuclear weapons. And that's why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.

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

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.

The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.

To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later.

Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

We have a moral imperative to keep up the search for something better than mutual assured destruction.

The total elimination of nuclear weapons remains the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations.

I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Concrete steps are needed to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in military plans, doctrines, and policies.

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.