Famous Quotes & Sayings

The nature of the North Korean nuclear question and the Iraqi issue is different,

Richard Engel

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north.

We repeated our positions and the Iranians repeated theirs.

This is totally new for the Iraqi legal system and these are not just any old trials.

George H. W. Bush

This is a very positive day for the Iraqi people and as well for world peace, ... Democracies are peaceful countries.

They really want to see something more obvious and tangible as they have been at the sharp end of IRA violence. The unionists want to see the melted-down guns.

Donald Rumsfeld

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

Donald Rumsfeld

A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.

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.

In three years, 61 people have been killed in Iraq on journalistic duties.

International pressure on Iran proves that (its nuclear activities) are not only Israel's problem.

Iran is the real threat because there's just so many ways it could play out. This is the one that could actually get us to $100.

Iran is starting to loom in the picture as a threat to oil capacity.

Iran is one to three years away from making a bomb.

Iran is not Iraq. And the United States is not the self-appointed policeman of the world.

Stephen Kinzer

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

Sergey Lavrov

Iran has removed the seals from a uranium enrichment plant and therefore urgent consultations are needed.

Iran has already said it's not going to use oil as a political weapon.

Thelma Drake

Iraq is very violent and dangerous, and that is the problem for us as Americans. We don't like seeing our men and women in harm's way.

Tariq Aziz

Iraq does not have weapons of mass destruction,

Omar Suleiman

Iran will give them the money, I think.

If the question comes up about partnering - how often do we train with the Iraqi military - who does he go to?

Greg Giraldo

The only reason we're not in Iran now is because we're going alphabetically and George Bush can't spell.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.

Robert McFarlane

In 1985, the Iranian sponsorship of terrorism was clear, solid evidence.

I'm not watching dates, I'm watching trained Iraqis. Five-thousand Iraqis trained -- 5,000 Americans come home.

Paul Wolfowitz

In recent days, the Syrians have been shipping killers into Iraq to try to kill Americans -- we don't welcome that,

In no way is that positive for the administration in the fall. We are going to be in Iraq at the same time. It's war and the (slowing) economy. That has to be negative for the administration.

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.

They're using them at a very rapid pace in Iraq and Afghanistan.

John O. Brennan

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