Richard Armitage famous quotes

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.
-- Richard Armitage

#Geek #Reader

Our President feels, and apparently many in the United Nations Security Council feel, that it is necessary to disarm Iraq before Iraq can again use weapons of mass destruction on her neighbors or she makes some liaison with terrorists who will use these weapons either against Iraq's neighbors or ourselves.
-- Richard Armitage

#Iraq #President #Use

There is no sign, not one sign, that the Iraqi regime has any intent to comply fully with the terms of Resolution 1441, just as it has failed to comply with previous U.N. Security Council resolutions. The international community gave Iraq one final opportunity to disarm peacefully, and that opportunity has run its course. Dr. Blix [Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector] told us on Monday that there has been no progress toward credible, verifiable disarmament.
-- Richard Armitage

#Running #Monday #Opportunity

The inspectors also found Iraq had developed effective means for dispersing these materials: unmanned aerial vehicles, spray devices, special munitions. We don't know where any of it is. And the last 60 days of new inspections have turned up no additional information that could allay any concerns about this military capability.
-- Richard Armitage

#Military #Mean #Iraq

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.
-- Richard Armitage

#Opportunity #Thinking #Facts

I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.
-- Richard Armitage

#Diplomats

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.
-- Richard Armitage

#Faces #Administration #Poor

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.
-- Richard Armitage

#White #House #Wish

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?
-- Richard Armitage

#Mind #Pakistan #Als

A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.
-- Richard Armitage

#Political #Pursuit #Terrorist

I value my ability to keep state secrets.
-- Richard Armitage

#Secret #States #Ability

I'm the only honest person in Washington.
-- Richard Armitage

#Honest #Persons

Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.
-- Richard Armitage

#Iran #Iraq #Lines

As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.
-- Richard Armitage

#Mother #Daughter #Son

I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.
-- Richard Armitage

#Thinking #Hands #President

The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that.
-- Richard Armitage

#Iran #Would Be #Development

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
-- Richard Armitage

#Military #War #Fighting

The bad guys have all the fun!
-- Richard Armitage

#Fun #Guy

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.
-- Richard Armitage

#Jobs #Character #Giving

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.
-- Richard Armitage

#Real #Believe #Thinking

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!
-- Richard Armitage

#Hate #Thinking #People

Ive never been that cute kid that was forgiven for being naughty.
-- Richard Armitage

#Cute #Kids #Naughty

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.
-- Richard Armitage

#Talent #Stamina

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.
-- Richard Armitage

#Crazy #Thinking #Play

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.
-- Richard Armitage

#Brave #The End Of The Day #Hussein

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.
-- Richard Armitage

#Thinking #Conflict #Ends

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.
-- Richard Armitage

#Government #East #Middle

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.
-- Richard Armitage

#Three #Timing #Makers

According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000 liters of anthrax. This is, for the record, more than 5 million teaspoons of anthrax. And we have no idea where any of it is. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for one grain of it.
-- Richard Armitage

#Ideas #Iraq #Special

But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.
-- Richard Armitage

#Iraq #Special #Empty

Well, first of all, I have to say that Iraq has already used weapons of mass destruction against her own people and against Iranians during their long war, so we know that weapons of mass destruction are existent with the Iraqis.
-- Richard Armitage

#War #Iraq #Long

Well, the United States has said that the disarmament of Iraq is the top priority, but we have also noted that there are many other United Nations Security Council Resolutions which are on the books, including the necessity to respect the human rights of all the citizens of Iraq that we're very interested in.
-- Richard Armitage

#Book #Iraq #Rights

What we said publicly is that we know that Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons, he's used them; we know about his biological weapons programs; and in the nuclear equation, left to his own devices, with no fissile material, by the end of the decade, he'll have a nuclear weapon. But if fissile material is provided to Saddam Hussein, he'll have a nuclear weapon within a year, so I'd say the year is the outside timetable.
-- Richard Armitage

#Years #Iraq #Nuclear

Today, Iraq is an immediate danger to our nation. This time, we cannot wait. We cannot wait for Saddam Hussein to take a devastating action or to transfer a weapon of mass destruction to someone else who will. After September 11th, it is simply no longer an option to sit back and contemplate an enemy - one with a stated intent to harm us, a track record and the means, and just wait for him to strike in order to protect ourselves.
-- Richard Armitage

#Mean #Order #Iraq

The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other deadly concoctions. This is addition to an extensive capacity to produce biological weapons, including anthrax and ricin, which is fatal within 24 to 36 hours of exposure.
-- Richard Armitage

#Iraq #Agents #Metrics

Well, I think finding the weapons of mass destruction is going to be quite time consuming. I know we've uncovered some documents, we'll have to exploit them, and we're going to have to blanket a country the size of California and search, I think, quite rigorously, but we'll come up with them.
-- Richard Armitage

#Country #Thinking #California

I think when I close my eyes what I think is 4,500 days or so, 4,250 I guess days, was long enough to give Iraq to come into compliance with the international order. And I think to myself how many Iraqi citizens died under the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein during those 4,200 odd days, and I think to myself how many more citizens of how many nations, the United States, Israel, or any other neighbor would die if Saddam Hussein went unchecked, though I am just grieved by the sacrifice of our brave men and women, but I think ultimately the greater good is served.
-- Richard Armitage

#Eye #Sacrifice #Men

Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.
-- Richard Armitage

#Children #Trying #Different