Sam Nunn Quotations

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

I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes.

Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning?

Senator Biden was correct by calling for more to look into Governor Cuomo's defense policy. It is clear to me, by researching the governor's record on the issue, that he would be a wildcard on national defense issues.

The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.

I don't know how you make a record on liberal and conservative these days. We've had a conservative Republican Congress, so to speak, and a conservative president, and we've run up one of the most astounding deficits in the history of our nation.

If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

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

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.