Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Pilger

Iraq has been successfully demonized as if everybody who lives there is Saddam Hussein. In the build-up to this attack on Iraq, journalists have almost universally excluded the prospect of civilian deaths, the numbers of people who would die, because those people don't matter.

John Pilger

The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty villages in Afghanistan didn't matter, even though it now seems that their numbers were greater. The people who will die in Iraq don't matter.

Tom Allen

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

Thelma Drake

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

Thabo Mbeki

It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Treaty spells out the rights and obligations of signatories to the Treaty, and therefore that we cannot deny Iran the rights due to it as a signatory of the NPT.

Margaret Drabble

My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world,

Michael Palin

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

Michael McCaul

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

Rand Paul

I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.

Henry Rollins

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Helmut Schmidt

In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.

John Olver

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

Lindsey Graham

You want to see a war on women? Come with me to Iraq and Afghanistan, folks. I've been there 35 times. I will show you what they do to women.

David Trimble

The IRA weren't getting what they wanted out of the talks. This is their response.

The Iraqis have consistently surprised us at every milestone.

Hans Blix

The Iraqis have been putting themselves in a position to rejuvenate their weapons-of-mass-destruction programs.

Patrick Burns

The Iraqi people are out of luck, the way it stands right now.

The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.

Jalal Talabani

The Iraqi judiciary will sentence Saddam with what it sees suitable. There is no political order.

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

Ian Bremmer

The Iranians can ramp this up or back as they're pressed. And thus far, they have shown every inclination to do precisely that.

The Iranians are taking this right down to the wire.

Donald Rumsfeld

The Iranian regime is today the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. The world does not want, and must work together to prevent, a nuclear Iran.

The Iranian nation is united on one thing. Iranians don't tolerate humiliation and threats.

All Iraqis know very well that there was no way of getting rid of Saddam without outside intervention.

Peter DeFazio

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

Peter DeFazio

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Marjane Satrapi

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

Marjane Satrapi

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

Jack Straw

are here for the long-term to see Iraq through to a better future.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Our expectations are low that the Iranians will accept.

Richard Engel

Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'

So we could be looking at at least a month without Iraqi oil.