Quotes on Iraq

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

Author: Bashar al-Assad

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

Author: Madeleine Albright

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.

Author: Iyad Allawi

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

Author: Tom Allen

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.

Author: Kofi Annan

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.

Author: Les Aspin

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.

Author: Marek Belka

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

Author: Hans Blix

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.

Author: John Bolton

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

Author: Carol Braun

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

Author: Paul Bremer

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

Author: Paul Bremer

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

Author: Sam Brownback

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

Author: George Bush

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Author: George Bush

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

Author: George Bush

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

Author: Robert Byrd

Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.

Author: Frank Carlucci

I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq.

Author: Ahmed Chalabi

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them.

Author: Dick Cheney

My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq.

Author: Kenneth Clarke

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Author: Nick Clooney

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.

Author: Robin Cook

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

Author: Larry Craig

I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete.

Author: John Culberson

I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.

Author: Geoff Davis

Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.

Author: Howard Dean

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

Author: Peter DeFazio

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

Author: Peter DeFazio

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Author: Jared Diamond

The terrorists know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts. They understand that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.

Author: Elizabeth Dole

After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq.

Author: Bulent Ecevit

So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.

Author: Bulent Ecevit

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

Author: Charles Evers

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

Author: Douglas Feith

We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria.

Author: Douglas Feith

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Author: Joschka Fischer

We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi.

Author: Joschka Fischer

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.

Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

Author: Virginia Foxx

Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.

Author: David Hackworth

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

Author: Alexander Haig

Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.

Author: Doc Hastings

I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

Author: Saddam Hussein

Iraq is not about oil.

Author: Bobby Inman

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.

Author: Bianca Jagger

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

Author: Walid Jumblatt

We are not going to abandon Iraq.

Author: Zalmay Khalilzad

Unquestionably, the mission in Iraq has become more dangerous and difficult.

Author: Ron Kind

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

Author: Dennis Kucinich

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

Author: Fran Lebowitz

The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

Author: Michael Ledeen

The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.

Author: Jay Leno

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

Author: David Letterman

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

Author: David Letterman

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.

Author: Carl Levin

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.

Author: Richard Lugar

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

Author: Bill Maher

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

Author: Chris Matthews

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

Author: Mitch McConnell

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

Author: Marty Meehan

The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

Author: Dennis Miller

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

Author: John Olver

In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.

Author: Bill Pascrell

We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.

Author: Charles Rangel

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

Author: Ron Reagan

Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

Author: Jack Reed

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

Author: Joe Sacco

And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.

Author: Jan Schakowsky

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

Author: Michael Scheuer

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

Author: Gerhard Schroder

Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.

Author: Eric Shinseki

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.

Author: Clare Short

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

Author: Michael Simpson

Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.

Author: Gary Sinise

The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council.

Author: Javier Solana

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

Author: Jalal Talabani

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

Author: Jim Wallis

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.

Author: Jim Walton

We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve.

Author: Jayson Williams

But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

Author: Daniel Yergin

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.

Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky