Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Robertson

The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

Ted Cruz

The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies.

Ted Cruz

Over the last years we've seen the consequences of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy. Leading from behind is a disaster. We have abandoned and alienated our friends and allies, and our enemies are stronger. Radical Islam is on the rise, Iran's on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon, China is waging cyber warfare against America.

Ted Cruz

It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.

Thelma Drake

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

Thabo Mbeki

It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Treaty spells out the rights and obligations of signatories to the Treaty, and therefore that we cannot deny Iran the rights due to it as a signatory of the NPT.

Margaret Drabble

My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world,

Michael Palin

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

Michael McCaul

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

Les Aspin

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.

Leon Panetta

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

Leon Panetta

Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.

Leon Panetta

The terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.

Leon Panetta

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests,

Louis Farrakhan

I did not know in the beginning how important the trip would be but we knew that Iran was in the crosshairs of the Neo-Conservative movement. And when you listen to Mr. Ted Cruz, the Republican presidential hopeful, and when you listen to Mr. Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, when you listen to their language, it says to me that they are agents of the Neo-Conservative strategy.

Michael Scheuer

If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I guess there is room for accomplishment everywhere.

Michael Hastings

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.

Michael Hastings

Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no matter how hard we try to make it something else.

Michael Hastings

A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.

Paul Bremer

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

Paul Bremer

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

In three years, 61 people have been killed in Iraq on journalistic duties.

International pressure on Iran proves that (its nuclear activities) are not only Israel's problem.

Hans Blix

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

Gerhard Schroder

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

Jessica Lynch

Since coming back from Iraq, there's been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it.

Fawn Hall

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

Fareed Zakaria

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

Fareed Zakaria

On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

George W. Bush

There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.

George W. Bush

We will be changing the regime of Iraq for the good of the iraqi people.