Shirin Ebadi Quotes

Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.

The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn't discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location.

We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour.

We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons.

It is clear that the original idea of the Iranians [to produce nuclear weapons] has been stopped by this agreement.

By developing atomic energy for peaceful purposes, you reach the nuclear option. There are no two atomic energies.

GOP seems to stand for Gas, Oil, and Plutonium.

Should the Iranian nation beg for the right of exploitation of nuclear energy from the bullying world powers until they accept that the nation has a nuclear right?...No. This is not the way of a free and independent nation.

Nuclear power plants are all purchased by central planners and subsidized by the public purse…. Nuclear energy has died from an uncontrollable attack of market forces.

If France can produce 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear power, why can't we?

Nearly one third of Japan would have had to evacuate from their communities…. I came to believe that we should halt further operations of nuclear energy that entail such huge risks…. Japan can supply its energy needs without nuclear power

We must create a new culture to improve [nuclear] safety. After making sure that it is safe, we must restart nuclear energy.

The intelligence community does not have complete 'eyes on' the totality of the Iranian nuclear program, nor can it guarantee that we have identified all of Iran's nuclear facilities and processes.

I have stated publicly, I want the same things for Iran that I want for Brazil. I want them to use and develop their nuclear energy for peaceful means.

Iran has every intention to build a nuclear weapon.

The red line must be drawn on Iran's nuclear enrichment program because these enrichment facilities are the only nuclear installations that we can definitely see and credibly target.

The Iran deal was working. As a solution to the problem of Iran developing nuclear weapons, it was actually working quite well.

Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and thoughtless reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate policy for the conservation of gasoline and other petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for the development or use of other, less harmful forms of energy. We have no adequate system of public transportation.

Sarah Palin knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America.

Finally, we will have at our disposal additional revenues from unleashing American energy. The Institute for Energy Research cites a short run figure of as much as $36 billion annually from increased energy production, tremendous amounts of money.

We are killing - absolutely killing our energy business in America.

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.