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"We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires."

"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack."

"But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons."

"Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily."

"Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons."

"Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all."

"We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons."
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"We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated."

"The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful."

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."

"So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product."

"As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million."
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