Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dinesh D'Souza

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

Condoleezza Rice

Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.

Condoleezza Rice

When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

Condoleezza Rice

There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there's a relationship here

Condoleezza Rice

Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

David Petraeus

Iran, as we have already discussed, has carried out very, very harmful activities inside Iraq. Funding, trainings, arming and, in some cases, even directing the activities of the special groups associated with the Jaish al-Mahdi and the Sadr Militia.

David Petraeus

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.

David Petraeus

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

David Cameron

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.

David Letterman

It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.

David Letterman

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

David Letterman

President Bush announced he has a five-point strategy for getting out of Iraq. Points six through 10 will be handled by the Kerry administration.

David Letterman

President Obama is sending troops back to Iraq. He said, 'Don't worry, we should not be there any longer than a Kardashian marriage.'

David Letterman

Iraq is so bad that President Obama phoned Hillary Clinton and asked her if she could start early.

David Letterman

President Obama's trying to work out a nuclear deal with Iran, and the Republicans are steamed. They got together and sent Iran a letter about the nuclear deal. They said if this doesn't work, by God, they're going to send Seth Rogen and James Franco.

Cindy Sheehan

You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine.

Andy Rooney

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

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.

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.

George H. W. Bush

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

We're trying to protect these communities from our own weapons of mass destruction. We didn't have to go to Iraq to find these things. They're right here.

Barton Gellman

Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.

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.

We perfectly realize that under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran has every right for enrichment,

Sherrod Brown

We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.

We as Iraqis are responsible for solving our own problems,

There can only be an Iraqi solution to this violence.