Iraq Quotes · Page 20

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

— Raul Grijalva

Jeb Bush has being slammed by his own party for a very messy response to questions about his brother's war in Iraq.…

— Chris Matthews

The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various…

— Craig L. Thomas

When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.

— Dennis Kucinich

The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were…

— Jalal Talabani

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with…

— Tom Daschle

By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.

— Saddam Hussein

Iraq is so bad that President Obama phoned Hillary Clinton and asked her if she could start early.

— David Letterman

[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

— George W. Bush

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and…

— Peter Singer

The United States Central Command of the Armed Forces has asked Geraldo Rivera to leave Iraq. It should also be noted that…

— Jon Stewart

“In movies, war only looks romantic. “Tell my gal I love her…” close-up shot, and fade out. It doesn’t work as beautifully…

— M.B. Dallocchio

Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the…

— Patrick Cockburn

[The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier…

— Alden Ehrenreich

In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add…

— Tina Fey

Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion…

— George H. W. Bush

This constitution is full of mines that are going to explode. The articles stipulated in this constitution will have grave consequences if…

— Saleh al-Mutlaq

When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's…

— Arundhati Roy

In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad…

— David Walker

It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the…

— Anonymous

The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war:…

— George Packer

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of…

— William Kristol

If you look at Iraq and Afghanistan's situations, they are quickly becoming much like our reservations. They will have puppet governments funded…

— Leonard Peltier

..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage…

— Andrea Gibson

When George Bush Senior [George HW Bush] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the Iraqis out…

— Bob Hawke

What I want to know is what in the world so many Democrats are doing supporting the President's unilateral intervention in Iraq?

— Howard Dean

We shouldn't have been in Iraq, but HillaryClinton did vote for it. We shouldn't have been in Iraq, but once we were…

— Donald Trump

Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

— Condoleezza Rice

I firmly believe that a free Iraq will be a catalyst to other substantive and important changes in that part of the…

— George W. Bush

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

— Fareed Zakaria

Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation.

— David Ignatius

But if the U.S. were to leave and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united and sovereign country, that would…

— Vladimir Putin

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as…

— Al Gore

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic…

— Robin Cook

In 2007, I was given the humbling privilege of being made an honorary member of the United States Marine Corps in recognition…

— Chuck Norris

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of…

— Kevin Powers

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the…

— Donald Rumsfeld

If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact,…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

It's hard thinking about Iraq at night when I'm dancing with transvestites in the afternoon.

— Jerry Springer