Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

Al Sharpton

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

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.

The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.

I suspect that most Iraqi people were as horrified,

George H. W. Bush

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

Charles Evers

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

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.

rejected by the Iraqi people in its entirety.

Our polling shows over 60 percent who say it wasn't worth it, ... Iraq has become Vietnamized.

Amr Moussa

I salute the Iraqis and wish them victory.

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.

Ahmed Chalabi

What was said before is not important.

Ahmed Chalabi

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

Ahmed Chalabi

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

Ahmed Chalabi

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

Ahmed Chalabi

Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.

Bianca Jagger

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.

Bill Bryson

I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

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.

Ali Khamenei

The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.

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.

Dinesh D'Souza

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

Cindy Sheehan

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

Donald Evans

And so there are so many good things going on all across Iraq and unfortunately that's not what the American people see on TV or they don't read a lot about it in the newspapers.

Colin Powell

The United States is looking at a way to launch peace with a disarmed Iraq. And so we are studying the declaration that Iraq submitted. Other members of the security council are studying the declaration, as is Unmovic and IAEA, and I would not make a judgment as to whether or not the declaration will be found deficient and whether or not that might lead to a material breach and whether or not, if it did, that would lead to action on the part of the United Nations.