Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruhollah Khomeini

These issues that exist among people that we are Iranian and what we need to do for Iran are not correct; these issues are not correct. This issue, which is perhaps being discussed everywhere, regarding paying attention to nation and nationality is nonsense in Islam and is against Islam. One of the things that the designers of Imperialism and their agents have promoted is the idea of nation and nationality.

Ruhollah Khomeini

After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.

Robert Fisk

Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.

Tom Brokaw

The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'

Ron Paul

Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran.

Susan Rice

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

Susan Davis

The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.

Tony Blair

Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.

Tony Blair

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.

Tony Blair

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range ballistic missiles.

Tony Blair

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

Tony Blair

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

Tony Blair

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again - we have pledged to remove Saddam and we will deliver

Tony Blair

There are unquestionably links between al Qaida and Iraq.

Tony Blair

And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.

Tony Blair

They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.

Tony Blair

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

Timothy McVeigh

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.

Robert Foster Bennett

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.

Robert Foster Bennett

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.

Tom Lantos

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

Tom Lantos

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

Tulsi Gabbard

I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.

Steven Pinker

The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.

Richard Armitage

Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

Richard Armitage

But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.

Richard Armitage

Our President feels, and apparently many in the United Nations Security Council feel, that it is necessary to disarm Iraq before Iraq can again use weapons of mass destruction on her neighbors or she makes some liaison with terrorists who will use these weapons either against Iraq's neighbors or ourselves.

Richard Armitage

The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other deadly concoctions. This is addition to an extensive capacity to produce biological weapons, including anthrax and ricin, which is fatal within 24 to 36 hours of exposure.

T. Boone Pickens

Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.

Traian Basescu

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Reza Aslan

The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation, they want to talk about the sanctions issues, and it seems like the western powers want to talk about nothing more than the nuclear issue.

Roger Cohen

Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.

Russ Carnahan

There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world.