Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes

Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.

I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.

The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.

The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

The Islamic State is dangerous, a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic is even more so.

We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

You know, people have actually changed the way they think about nuclear weapons now, post-Cold War, post-9/11. The threat of nuclear weapons is not so much Russia attacking the United States, China. It's not a state-to-state - it's obviously terrorism; it's proliferation.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

The Security Council decided to deal with Iran's nuclear intentions. The international community will not be willing to tolerate an Iran with a nuclear capability and an Iran that collaborates with terrorist organizations.

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

This diffusion of nuclear weapons is terrible…terrible. Imagine a world with a large number of states with nuclear bombs.

There is no secret; and there is no defense. Within some few years Russia and many smaller countries can have their installations ready to make atom bombs by the hundreds, just like America, Atom bombs are the cheapest means of town-destruction …. Russia has numbers of devoted agents in every country--they can easily be smuggled in and hidden, to destroy everything for miles around at the fixed moment. An immense army of security officers and spies will be needed, continually to inspect every box or case in any house.

We can not allow a terrorist state to become a nuclear power.

Iran’s rulers are so fanatical and apocalyptic that even nuclear deterrence would have no meaning.

There is a cancer of extremism that infects Islam today.

Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world.