If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

When I was in the White House I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30 000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

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.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy never become beneficial.

Leadership is intangible and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people their imagination.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.