Ban Ki-moon Quotes

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.

The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.

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

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

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.

Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wounding of civilians - including children, the most vulnerable of all.

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.

If I were President I would veto arms sales to countries we damn well know our going to shoot our ass the minute our backs are turned.

No nation, no matter how destitute, likes to be told how much military "security" to buy.

The inability of governments to take seriously the damage caused by small arms and light weapons is a failure of major proportions.

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.

Whenever I look at TV and I see the weapon I invented to defend my motherland in the hands of these bin Ladens I ask myself the same question: How did it get into their hands? …. I didn't put it in the hands of bandits and terrorists and it's not my fault that it has mushroomed uncontrollably across the globe. Can I be blamed that they consider it the most reliable weapon?

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.

We should forcefully call out China whenever it violates international standards.

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

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.