Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Ellsberg

It is urgent to prevent new U.S. aggression. The time is now for the world to say 'no' to U.S. threats of air attack against Iran, and to the very notion of a nuclear first-use 'option' by America or any other nation.

Craig L. Thomas

The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.

Craig Kilborn

In a new poll 54 percent believed President Bush exaggerated the size of Iraq's missile threat. Hey, he's a guy.

Alan Dershowitz

What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?

Bill Hicks

So scary watching the news...Like Iraq...could ever under any stretch of the imagination be any threat to us whatsoever.

Bruce Kent

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

Samuel L. Jackson

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

Brent Scowcroft

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

Brent Scowcroft

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Brent Scowcroft

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

Argus Hamilton

President Obama hosted lawmakers Thursday saying he wanted bipartisan input on health care reform. Nobody's mind was changed. At the summit's end he threatened to go with the nuclear option, showing he's tougher on Republicans than he is on Iran.

Argus Hamilton

CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

Bahman Ghobadi

Im free - but Im also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

Bashar al-Assad

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

Arthur L. Herman

Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.

Azar Nafisi

Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

Azar Nafisi

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

Craig Ferguson

North Korea announced that they have nuclear weapons and they have no plans to give them up. The White House, acting quickly, announced their plan to invade Iran.

Eli Roth

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.

Asghar Farhadi

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

Asghar Farhadi

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

Asghar Farhadi

There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.

Jared Diamond

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Charles Evers

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

The position that has been taken by the Iranians is so extreme,

Until and unless the stalemate with Iran is resolved one way or the other, I think we're going to see prices higher.

I suspect that most Iraqi people were as horrified,

I think the Iranians are willing to live with ... a possible referral to the Security Council.

IAEA received a prompt response from Iranians to visit the site, prompt access,

Tom Lantos

But the alarmingly slow pace of Iraq reconstruction, and the misuse of U.S. and Iraqi funds, have serious repercussions for our own national security.

George H. W. Bush

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

George H. W. Bush

If the Iraqi regime were disarming, we would know it because we would see it.

Alexander Haig

Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.