Iraq Quotes · Page 28

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn ran the defense intelligence agency from 2012 to 2014. He served as a top national intelligence adviser to…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our…

— Bob Graham

The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea…

— Marjane Satrapi

I was against the war with Iraq. First of all, they didn't knock down the World Trade Centre. It wasn't Iraq that…

— Donald Trump

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

— Bashar al-Assad

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short…

— Hassan Blasim

Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.

— Iqbal Sacranie

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

— Jon Stewart

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it…

— Shane Smith

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

I think indeed our response on counterinsurgency needs to be finely tuned to the needs of Afghanistan. This is not Iraq. We…

— Rahm Emanuel

Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in…

— Linda Chavez

I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war…

— Byron Katie

Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into…

— Andrew Himes

According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and…

— John Conyers

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They…

— Anthony Shadid

I was a businessman. I was a real estate man and a businessman. That was the first time I think that question…

— Donald Trump

I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to…

— Cindy Sheehan

The Arabs were Germany's natural friends...They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate…

— Haj Amin al-Husseini

In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation…

— Arundhati Roy

But you'll notice, you will notice that Russia and China, invariably at the United Nations, move to block American action, to repress…

— Christopher Hitchens

As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched"…

— Christopher Durang

It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I…

— Walid Jumblatt

When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom…

— John Pilger

The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just…

— Spencer Bachus

To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me,…

— Serj Tankian

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

— Ahmed Chalabi

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to…

— Susan Sarandon

The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United…

— Vic Snyder

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

— Kinky Friedman

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

— Alan Greenspan

Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news…

— David Letterman

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

— Clare Short

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

— Chris Chocola

They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't…

— Conrad Burns

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

— Nick Clooney

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply,…

— Condoleezza Rice

Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

— Richard Armitage

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

— George W. Bush

I agree with the president [Barack Obama]. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or…

— Hillary Clinton