Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.

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

The only sure way to eliminate the threat posed by nuclear weapons is to eliminate the weapons themselves.

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

The nuclear weapon is obsolete.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

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

I would like to see invented a substance or a machine with such terrible power of mass destruction that war would thereby be made impossible forever.

If we wish to convince countries like Iran that the development of nuclear weapons is not in their best interest, we need to demonstrate that maintaining or enhancing our own arsenal is not in our interest.

Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to use them.

The no-first-use policy for nuclear weapons was a well thought out stand... We don't intend to reverse it.

We don't need another nuclear arms race to proceed a pace and then to encourage other countries to become very, to develop these kinds of capabilities also. This is not what we need.

Unlike some of our neighbours, India does not believe in dirty bombs. We take non-proliferation very seriously.

Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

We are categorically against proliferation of nuclear weapons.

I do not believe it makes sense to say that nuclear weapons are inherently evil. In certain circumstances, they can play a positive role - as they have in the past. But clearly they have a power to do great harm.

The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

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.

Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.

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

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.

There is only one thing worse than one nation having the atomic bomb -- that's two nations having it.