President Barack Obama:  Today, the Cold War has disappeared but thousands of those weapons have not. In a strange turn of history, the threat of global nuclear war has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up. More nations have acquired these weapons. Testing has continued. Black market trade in nuclear secrets and nuclear materials abound. The technology to build a bomb has spread. Terrorists are determined to buy, build or steal one. Our efforts to contain these dangers are centered on a global non-proliferation regime, but as more people and nations break the rules, we could reach the point where the center cannot hold.

Now, understand, this matters to people everywhere. One nuclear weapon exploded in one city -- be it New York or Moscow, Islamabad or Mumbai, Tokyo or Tel Aviv, Paris or Prague -- could kill hundreds of thousands of people. And no matter where it happens, there is no end to what the consequences might be -- for our global safety, our security, our society, our economy, to our ultimate survival.

Some argue that the spread of these weapons cannot be stopped, cannot be checked -- that we are destined to live in a world where more nations and more people possess the ultimate tools of destruction. Such fatalism is a deadly adversary, for if we believe that the spread of nuclear weapons is inevitable, then in some way we are admitting to ourselves that the use of nuclear weapons is inevitable. http://stephencrose.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/obama-nuclear-disarmament-speech-full-text/

George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn: Ronald Reagan called for the abolishment of "all nuclear weapons," which he considered to be "totally irrational, totally inhumane, good for nothing but killing, possibly destructive of life on earth and civilization." Mikhail Gorbachev shared this vision, which had also been expressed by previous American presidents.

Although Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev failed at Reykjavik to achieve the goal of an agreement to get rid of all nuclear weapons, they did succeed in turning the arms race on its head. They initiated steps leading to significant reductions in deployed long- and intermediate-range nuclear forces, including the elimination of an entire class of threatening missiles.  http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=2252&issue_id=54

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.
Alan Cranston

I expect a nuclear bomb to be exploded in a city somewhere in the world in the next five years - if more is not done to prevent it.
Ambassador Thomas Graham, President Clinton's Negotiator on Non-Proliferation Treaty, February 1998

I guarantee that a nuclear weapon will be exploded on the territory of the U.S. in the next 10 years if more is not done to prevent it.
General Charles Horner, Former U.S. Commander of Allied Forces, Gulf War

It's not a question of whether, but of where and when weapons of mass destruction will be used.
William Perry, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense http://www.gsinstitute.org/dpe/quotes.html

I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things.'
Ronald Reagan, May 16, 1983

Most of the people have been hearing in political dialog from one side, since we've been here in the 3 1/2 years, that I somehow have an itchy finger and am going to blow up the world. And that has all been duly reported by so many of you that that is the tone that the people have been getting. And it doesn't do me any good to tell you that, having seen four wars in my lifetime, I don't know of anyone, in or out of government, that is more determinedly seeking peace than I am. And my goal is the total elimination of nuclear weapons. If we can get those fellows back to the table and get them to start down that road of mutual reduction, then they might find out what common sense it would mean to eliminate them."
Ronald Reagan, Press Conference, May 22, 1984

It is my fervent goal and hope...that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth.
Ronald Reagan, October 20, 1986

As I have indicated in previous statements to the Congress, my central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially, and ultimately to eliminate, nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment.
Ronald Reagan, March 25, 1988  http://www.gsinstitute.org/dpe/quotes.html

Newt Gingrch: "[Obama is] in a world where Hamas is firing missiles every day into Israel, Iran is building nuclear weapons and the North Koreans today, basically during his speech, fired a missile," Gingrich added. "And he has some wonderful fantasy idea that we're going to have a great meeting next year. With who? Who's coming to this meeting? The Pakistanis? The Indians? The Chinese? The Russians? And what are they going to promise? And why would you believe them? I just think it's very dangerous to have a fantasy foreign policy and it can get you in enormous trouble just like giving -- we don't have a war on terror anymore. We don't have terrorist attacks anymore. So now homeland security has manmade disasters. I'm somehow not comfortable with the fact that 9/11 was a manmade disaster but not a terrorist attack and I'm not comfortable with words instead of serious systematic policies." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/05/gingrich-obama-pursuing-a_n_183239.html

Limbaugh: I think it was somebody at Power Line today who posed the question, "Does anybody really doubt that this regime would use nuclear weapons if it were necessary against an enemy?" And whoever wrote the piece at Power Line (I don't have it front of me) said, "There's no question in my mind that this regime would use nuclear weapons." I'm not so sure they would. This is the point about this guy and this administration. He's unilaterally disarming. He's going to sign this big deal in Prague this week because he announced this in Prague. So the carbon footprint to get back over there and sign this thing with the Russians. The Russians, their foreign minister, somebody said today in Moscow, "Hey, look. You know, we reserve the right to pull out of this." As Drudge reports that is Obama's on a leash.

Palin: "And President Obama, with all that vast nuclear expertise he acquired as a community organizer, a part-time senator, and a candidate for president, has accomplished nothing to date with Iran or North Korea,"  she said.  "It's unbelievable. Unbelievable, no administration in America's history would, I think, ever have considered such a step that we just found out President Obama is supporting today. It's kinda like getting out there on a playground, a bunch of kids, getting ready to fight, and one of the kids saying, 'Go ahead, punch me in the face and I'm not going to retaliate. Go ahead and do what you want to with me.

In 1990, GOPAC, which worked with Republican candidates across the country, sent a memo titled "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control" to GOP contenders. The memo started,

As you know, one of the key points in the GOPAC [training] tapes is that "language matters." In the [GOPAC] video "We are a Majority," Language is listed as a key mechanism of control used by a majority party, along with Agenda, Rules, Attitude and Learning. As the tapes have been used in training sessions across the country and mailed to candidates we have heard a plaintive plea: "I wish I could speak like Newt."

That takes years of practice. But, we believe that you could have a significant impact on your campaign and the way you communicate if we help a little. That is why we have created this list of words and phrases.

The positive words were hardly surprising; they included "caring," "freedom," "liberty," "moral," prosperity," and "strength. But the "contrasting words"--which GOPAC said should be applied to Democrats and their proposals--were rather hard-edged: "betray," "bizarre," "cheat," "corrupt," "destroy," "disgrace," "greedy," "incompetent," "intolerant," "radical," "shallow," "sick," and "traitors."

This is to say that Gay Hart Gaines, the number two on the CPB's board as of this week, was a leading official of an outfit that advised Republican candidates to brand Democrats "traitors." She now is in a position to search for bias in public radio and public television programming.

Lee Atwater, My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The '80s were about acquiring -- acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul. Life magazine1991  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater

Lets talk some capers and some trash

So's we can grab us all some cash

From those fascists and rube boors

We aint gotta worry bout truth no more

Yakity yak, we comin back

It's time to talk about that doom

And all those nukes that go boom boom

Disarmament is now in sight

Talkin peace wont get us shite

Yakity yak, we must come back

We need those rebels with the hats

And all that other confederate crap

We'll give em bullets for their guns

How can they be so frickin dumb?

Yakity yak (We're comin back)

Just give those commies dirty looks

Just call em cowards and dirty crooks

We're the true hoodlums that's true

We have no time for a Golden Rule

Yakety yak (We're right on track)

Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak
Yakety yak, yakety yak

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