Robert Joseph

Not only did the Obama administration cancel the third site, it canceled every single program that was designed to develop capabilities to keep pace with the threat.

I think Iran will use nuclear weapons. They will use it to intimidate. They will use it to blackmail us.

It is certainly better that Iran, at declared facilities, is spinning fewer centrifuges rather than more centrifuges.

I identify what I call five fatal flaws to the agreement.

I believe it will represent perhaps the single greatest strategic mistake in the national security area in the past 35-plus years of my career.

I would suggest that instead of relieving sanctions we impose even more sanctions. It was sanctions that brought the Iranians to the table.

I think there are a number of fatal flaws in our position and in fact in what has already been agreed.

I think it was, certainly, an intelligence failure of the first order.

Once you allow Iran to maintain and in fact under this agreement expand a large-scale infrastructure for enrichment, the agreement in and of itself explicitly recognizes at that point Iran as a nuclear weapons threshold state.

I do not believe that we are going to get what we need, which is unfettered anywhere anytime access to all facilities that are relevant, to all people that are relevant and to all records that are relevant.

I think it is imperative to demonstrate U.S. leadership in order to keep those sanctions on Iran...