Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Bacon

Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.

Helmut Schmidt

In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.

Ferdinand Mount

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

Ferdinand Mount

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

Tom Allen

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

All Iraqis know very well that there was no way of getting rid of Saddam without outside intervention.

Henry Rollins

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Noel Gallagher

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

John O. Brennan

President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

John Pilger

Iraq has been successfully demonized as if everybody who lives there is Saddam Hussein. In the build-up to this attack on Iraq, journalists have almost universally excluded the prospect of civilian deaths, the numbers of people who would die, because those people don't matter.

John Pilger

The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty villages in Afghanistan didn't matter, even though it now seems that their numbers were greater. The people who will die in Iraq don't matter.

John Barrasso

A nuclear armed Iran makes the world less safe, less stable, less secure.

John Bolton

There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.

John Bolton

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

John Bolton

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

You know me. You are an Iraqi and you know who I am.

Matt Taibbi

I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.

Meg Ryan

Through Clinton and Monica, Clinton and Hillary, the scandal, the impeachment, Iraq, Bruce and Demi, Ellen and Anne, I have remained consistently and nauseatingly adorable. I have, in fact, been known to cause diabetes.

John Olver

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

Peter DeFazio

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

Peter DeFazio

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Marjane Satrapi

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

Marjane Satrapi

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

David Trimble

The IRA weren't getting what they wanted out of the talks. This is their response.

The Iraqis have consistently surprised us at every milestone.

Hans Blix

The Iraqis have been putting themselves in a position to rejuvenate their weapons-of-mass-destruction programs.

Patrick Burns

The Iraqi people are out of luck, the way it stands right now.

The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.

Jalal Talabani

The Iraqi judiciary will sentence Saddam with what it sees suitable. There is no political order.

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

Ian Bremmer

The Iranians can ramp this up or back as they're pressed. And thus far, they have shown every inclination to do precisely that.

The Iranians are taking this right down to the wire.

Donald Rumsfeld

The Iranian regime is today the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. The world does not want, and must work together to prevent, a nuclear Iran.