Jason Chaffetz Quotes

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

If Iran gets nuclear weapons we are near to the apocalypse.

Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East. But it could be brought here.

My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East.

The world cannot afford a nuclear Iran.

There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.

When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

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.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more.

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

I don't think that Iran with a nuclear capability will be just the problem of the state of Israel. This is a matter that concerns the whole world.

This Arab Islamic nation must obtain a nuclear bomb. Without a nuclear bomb, we will continue to be oppressed.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

There is going to be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East if Iran gets a nuclear weapon. And you are going to see it in Egypt, in Turkey, in the Emirates. All of those people will want that.

My personal view is that Iran, left to its own devices, will get itself to that step right below a nuclear weapon, that permanent breakout stage, so the needle isn't quite in the red for the international community. And, frankly, that will be as destabilizing as their actually having a weapon.

Iran has every intention to build a nuclear weapon.

Iran sees India, China, Pakistan and, allegedly, Israel around them with nuclear weapons.

The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.

Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing them, they're crazy.