Sergei Lavrov Quotes

The French don't care where they send arms as long as they get some money.

The United States is the preeminent arms pusher worldwide.

Because the United States now leads the world in arms deliveries by such a wide margin, Washington has little credibility when it chides other governments for transferring weapons to U. S. enemies.

It is our fixed purpose that our surplus war equipment should not be employed in encouraging warfare by fostering militarism and the building up of the competitive armaments that threaten the peace of the world. It in no way precludes us from furnishing arms to aid in the putting down of insurrectionary attacks upon public order in a neighboring State

The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.

The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan.

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

Britain is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, after the States. There's a lot of money in weapons deals. We sell weapons, and our responsibility ends as soon as they leave the country; they're unpacked, and then before you know it, they're spread around the world.

You wouldn’t sell me arms. I had to buy them where I could.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

Indeed, it is quite sad to see the United States becoming the main exporter of arms. It is quite sad to look at the U.S. government subsidizing arms exports.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

If I were President I would veto arms sales to countries we damn well know our going to shoot our ass the minute our backs are turned.

I don't think we should be in the business of proliferating arms sales just to protect our industrial base.

(When British troops were still garrisoned in Egypt, Nasser requested arms from the United States.) You can't give them (the Egyptians) arms with which to kill British soldiers who fought shoulder to shoulder with you in the war (World War II.)

The arms business is an absolutely acceptable business.

I think most of the Washington foreign policy establishment exists in a fantasy world when it comes to Syria. They fundamentally don't understand that Russia and Iran, from the beginning, had much more at stake in Syria than the United States did. Russia and Iran were going to do everything possible in order to keep Bashar al-Assad in power.

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.