Gary Samore Quotations

On the other hand, if Moscow promised to support referral after another deadline, I'd be willing to accept a short delay.

No one can estimate with any precision how long this will take,

From what I saw, everything looked like local manufacturing except for some gauges.

My trip has gone very well. I've really had a great opportunity to meet people...and this talk was terrific. I'm very happy with the attendance; I got a lot of very good questions; I wish it could have gone on a little longer.

I think it is an excellent proposal, but I am skeptical that the proposal would be accepted by the Iranian government.

We estimate, if everything goes right, if they throw all their effort into solving their problems, they might be able to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a single nuclear weapon within five years.

Whether it is by consensus or by vote, either way it ends up in New York.

When you talk to Iranians, there seems to be a consensus that Iran needs to have a latent nuclear weapons capability; in other words, an option, ... But there is much less agreement about whether it makes sense for Iran to produce nuclear weapons.

The tide of opinion in Tehran seems to have shifted.

Finally, people from the Bush Administration argue that Iran is not really serious about making any nuclear deal that would require it to give up its nuclear weapons option and that Iran is likely to cheat on any deal in the future.

I hope the EU3 don't compromise. The draft resolution is excellent. We should force the Russians to vote,

It has very few credible options for causing mass casualties.

In the case of Iraq the quality of intelligence and the analysis of that intelligence was abysmally bad.

The most difficult thing for leaders of the intelligence community is to tell the political leadership that they're really not sure, that they really don't have good information and therefore they're in the realm of guesswork,

For their political needs, that would be enough.