Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Conan O'Brien

Earlier today, the White House released President Bush's tax return. Not surprisingly, under dependents, the president listed Iraq

Colin Powell

Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.

Colin Powell

One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.

Colin Powell

With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment as to whether it will change, how fast it will change, and we hope that we can help influence them as to how change comes about and what change might be better for them than other forms of change.

We urge the Iraqis to be up to the level of responsibility... to keep Iraq's unity and safety.

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.

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

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.

We as Iraqis are responsible for solving our own problems,

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.

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.

Barton Gellman

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

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.

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

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.

Paul Bremer

We need experienced Iraqi commanders who can lead troops. Listen, I've always told you that I opposed disbanding the army.

Most Iraqis remain less secure than they were under Saddam, less secure even than they were in the first year of the American occupation.

We have to really level with the American people, ... This is not going to be over in two years ... we're not going to just be able to walk out of Iraq and this is going to be over.

Igor Ivanov

The problems of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq can be solved by political means,

We are in Iraq for as long as it takes to solve the problems in Iraq, ... until the job is done.

Donald Rumsfeld

We are in Iraq for as long as it takes to solve the problems in Iraq,

George H. W. Bush

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

Phil Klay

Certainly, when I'd left Iraq back in 2008, I'd been proud of my service, but whether we'd been successful or not was still an open question.

Al Sharpton

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

Amr Moussa

I salute the Iraqis and wish them victory.

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.