Richard Butler Quotations

What there is now is evidence that Saddam has reinvigorated his nuclear weapons program.

We'll need to do the whole spectrum of our work. Documents are part of that, ... We also need to do our inspections, and they're off and running again. It will be a little while yet before we have the whole spectrum of our work done.

We've got a professional job to do; we do it on the basis of evidence. You really want that light at the end of the tunnel to get larger, to get out of sanctions? There is only one way down that tunnel and that is on the track of disarmament.

The game is only just afoot. And there is yet more to come and there have been some hints of both good cooperation but also some inconsistencies that demonstrate, I think, that the road ahead is somewhat bumpy.

These are very practical things, very important things.

the right to secure full and free access at any time to material and other items, which, in its judgment, may be necessary for its monitoring and verification activities.

I don't think there's any doubt at all -- the man is thoroughly back in business making weapons of mass destruction.

what weapons do they have and where are they now.

In light of this experience, that is, the absence of full cooperation by Iraq, it must regrettably be recorded again that the commission is not able to conduct the substantive disarmament work mandated to it by the Security Council and, thus, to give the council the assurances it requires with respect to Iraq's prohibited weapons programs.

It may be that we won't ever get 100 percent verification where physical parts have been torn apart and dispersed.