"I think we should be organized in something called an Alliance Against Nuclear Terrorism. In the same way that NATO was the great alliance of the Cold War and served a great purpose then, we need now, in the war on terrorism, a new alliance, the mission of which would be to minimize the risk of nuclear terrorist attacks, and the members would agree to sign on to the gold standard."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Graham T. Allison

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Risk Quotes

“If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.”
“I understand the needs of both the military and the veteran, and that has helped me tremendously as a congressman. I am proud to serve on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.”
“As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored" "I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft.”
“A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.”

Source : "Open Letter to President Wilson". Book by Ben Salmon, October 14, 1919.
“Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?”

Source : Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 2
“The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.”

Source : Rae Foley (1961). “It's Murder, Mr. Potter”
“A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.”
“The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'”

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