Famous Quotes & Sayings

Les Aspin

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.

Leon Panetta

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests,

Jalal Talabani

For the Iraqi state, it is very difficult,

Ike Skelton

The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

Muqtada al Sadr

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

Kevin Powers

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.

Kevin O'Leary

In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mick Jagger

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

Tom Allen

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

Noel Gallagher

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

Matt Taibbi

I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.

Meg Ryan

Through Clinton and Monica, Clinton and Hillary, the scandal, the impeachment, Iraq, Bruce and Demi, Ellen and Anne, I have remained consistently and nauseatingly adorable. I have, in fact, been known to cause diabetes.

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.

Michael Hastings

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.

Michael Hastings

Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no matter how hard we try to make it something else.

Michael Hastings

A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.

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.

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,

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,

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.

Nancy Pelosi

The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader,

Nancy Pelosi

Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There's no question about 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.

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

John Bolton

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

You know me. You are an Iraqi and you know who I am.

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.