George W. Bush Quotes

Let no one expect us to disarm unilaterally. We are not a naive people.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

We must have universal military training because the one hope for a peaceful world is a powerful America… with adequate means to instantly check aggressors.

I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

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.

I believe we should use all means necessary to prevent the acquisition or fabrication of nuclear weapons by countries or groups hostile to the U. S. We should act in concert with our allies who are similarly working to protect their countries.

We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use.

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

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

I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

If we are addressing the issue of weapons of mass destruction, we need to send a uniform, consistent message that there is zero tolerance to any country who is developing weapons of mass destruction, North Korea included.

The overriding element of American security interest is to keep weapons of mass destruction under responsible control.

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological nation plans for it.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

The best war is the one that doesn’t have to be fought, and the best military is the one capable and versatile enough to deter the next war in the first place.