78 Quotes by Richard Butler

The only reason it's taken so long, ... is that from day one, Iraq dragged its feet, sought to conceal and obfuscate and keep us away from the things we have the legal right to find.

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.

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

We did not make the progress I have hoped for.

She's doing OK. She's a fighter, like I said, she's a fighter, and I really believe she's gonna pull through.

Silly to think we could have serious conversations in our office.

Maybe with respect to those (eight) buildings there will be some special arrangements made where our professional team will be accompanied by diplomatic observers,

My job is to return to New York to report this stage of affairs to the Security Council. I can't go into details until I do that.

My duty is to report what has happened to the Security Council and the United Nations. I'm going to New York to do that.