Andrew Niccol Quotes

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

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

I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does.

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.

I was never involved in arms trading. In the Russian Federation, arms trading is the prerogative of the state.

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

The arms business is an absolutely acceptable business.

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.

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.

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

The problem is that the global arms trade is entirely free of international regulation. In a world in which the flow of consumer goods is governed by a plethora of international conventions and regulations, deadly weapons have an uncanny knack of slipping through the net.

80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's armament, [for] which, of course, there has to be buyers, and the buyers are very terribly keen, very often military dictator[s] or sometimes not military dictator[s] but for military purposes. But the sellers are also promoting this trade. And two thirds of the arm exports go to developing countries. I'm in favor of putting a control on it, a ban on it.

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

An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination.

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

We have been compelled to create an armaments industry of vast proportions.

One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.

I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador.

Ukraine is an industrialized nation that can produce their own weapons. We're talking about the defensive weapons, which help us just defensively.

We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.

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.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.