Sam Nunn Quotes (11 Quotes)

This is a heck of a great beginning, ... Once they see the vision, I think it'll come. It's already started.

a production line of nuclear weapons ... will not be permitted.

Nunn told the capacity crowd the Nunn-Lugar concept has, in fact, been called the agreement of the century. The man who helped make it happen was Dick Lugar, ... He has unending energy. He never quits. No one can over-exaggerate his accomplishments.

But it has not been easy, ... It has been three yards and a cloud of dust, to use a football analogy, as opposed to a 40-yard touchdown pass.

There are some who believe we are going to have an electronic Pearl Harbor, so to speak, before we really make (computer security) the kind of priority that many of us believe it deserves to be,

We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

The good news is that we are making progress. The bad news is that we're doing too little and moving much too slowly. . . . The job of securing dangerous materials in Russia itself is about one-half done.

While I am honored to have my name mentioned for a Cabinet position, I am not interested in going back into government at this juncture in my life,

reduce the pressure on the nuclear trigger.

If terrorists gain access to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons they can destroy lives, destabilize economies and change history, ... We have an obligation to future generations to do everything we can to keep these dangerous weapons out of the world's most dangerous hands.