Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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 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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

Jack Straw

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

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.

Cindy Sheehan

So you're the little woman who stopped the Iraq war.

This is poppycock that Iraq will be able to pay its way out.

David Crane

It really has to be seen by the people of Iraq that's who this is for and about that justice is going to take place. If they perceive that this is not going to happen, that's where this will unravel.

Bill Schneider

It's all Iraq. In 50 years, 2004 will be known as the Iraq election.

Tariq Aziz

They are telling wrongly the American public opinion and the world that Iraq is reproducing weapons of mass destruction, ... That's not true.

This place speaks volumes about those who serve after 9-11, ... This place is why we are in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This is a priority because of all the difficulties they're having in Iraq getting convoys from point A to point B.

Susan Davis

The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.

Pete Hegseth

The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death. In many ways, I liken their reactions to the way I felt while serving in Iraq.