Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Donald Rumsfeld

Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

Donald Rumsfeld

The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

We're essentially where we were with Iraq 12 years ago. It took us 12 years to get where we are now with Iraq. It's a long process.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

Al Sharpton

We are seeing people from Iraq being treated better than people from New Orleans.

Richard Lugar

It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

rejected by the Iraqi people in its entirety.

Amr Moussa

I salute the Iraqis and wish them victory.

Our Iranian partners should come here in the near future, and talks will take place constantly.

Wayne White

Over the long run, they could operate quite separately from the Iranians. You're not seeing it now because the political situation in Iraq is not mature.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I was able to slip into Afghanistan for a week. However, I had to go back into Iran to produce my film, shot about two kilometers from the border.

It doesn't mean that the majority of the Iranian people think like that. They are staying in their homes. They are not on the streets.

Our polling shows over 60 percent who say it wasn't worth it, ... Iraq has become Vietnamized.

People know the Iranian situation will stay in the market for quite some time.

For the short-term, there is also I think a political symbol for the region that says we are working together and the noose around Iraq is closing.

Bill Walton

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

Bahman Ghobadi

In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.

when Saddam was in power, the Iraqi people had suffered from several wars and sanctions for many years.

While Iran said last week that it would separate nuclear and oil as issues, it was only last year that it warned that oil could be used as a weapon to get its own way on the nuclear issues.

There can only be an Iraqi solution to this violence.

This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.

Bernie Sanders

The disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region.

We're not likely to see oil prices going lower until there's resolution on the Iraqi front,

Jay Rockefeller

We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found.

You have enough men, ... We will work together. We will not let the Iraqi people down.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

Virginia Foxx

We went to Iraq because Saddam Hussein's dictatorship was a threat to his neighbors, the Middle East, the United States and his own people.

We repeated our positions and the Iranians repeated theirs.

We will withdraw from Iraq when the job is done, not before,