William Scott Ritter Jr. Quotes

• When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I’m going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Operations, Public, Issue

•  Weapons of mass destruction aren’t pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They’re produced in factories. There’s science and technology involved. They’re not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.

   

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Weapon, Science

• War is not an academic exercise.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War

• War is about dead people.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, War

• There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don’t want to provide any distractions.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Success

  Tags in People, Change

• The United States is the laughingstock of the world.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States

• The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Way, Iraqi

• The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Dangerous, Weapon, Iraqi, War

• The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you’ll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People, Iraqi, Hospitality

• Sanctions aren’t about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Sanctions, Weapon

• One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defending, Myself

• My personal missteps – how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in America

  Tags in Problem, Personal

• My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America’s policy toward Iraq, a debate that’s been sadly lacking.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in United States

• It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in People, American, War

• It is a pro-U.N. movie. It’s a pro-American movie. It’s a pro-American movie. It’s a movie people should be watching and not denigrating.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Watching

• Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Iraq

• If you want to play the game of truth, I’ll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Game

• If people don’t like the history, I’m sorry.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in History

  Tags in People, Like

• I’ve been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Iraq, Film

• I’m someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I’m empowered with the truth, I’m not going to shut up.

  William Scott Ritter Jr.

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Believe

William Scott Ritter Jr. (31)

Birth:	15th July, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Public Servant

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