Iraq Quotes · Page 38

It's just a matter of time before we go into Iraq and get Saddam Hussein. I think just before Bush falls below…

— Jay Leno

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

— David Letterman

And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

— Condoleezza Rice

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a…

— Asne Seierstad

“Here in Iraq...we found a country of good people looking after their kids, starting schools, improving their prospects in spite of terrible…

— Marcus Luttrell

As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There…

— Arlen Specter

Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being insticated by…

— George W. Bush

I must tell you that I am committed, as the president of Iraq, to benchmarks and to do our best to achieve…

— Jalal Talabani

When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to…

— Lisa Ling

Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote…

— Howard Dean

Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as…

— Bill O'Reilly

Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated…

— Tucker Carlson

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been…

— Jon Stewart

You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam…

— Jonathan Yardley

Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to…

— Jim Gerlach

I wish that after the war against Saddam Hussein we had been more effective at rebuilding Iraq quickly. I think had we…

— Condoleezza Rice

OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run…

— Susan Davis

Since the advent of the atomic bomb, the United States has always needed two kinds of enemies. On one level, it has…

— Michael Ruppert

The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a…

— Noam Chomsky

Any strong Muslim regime that threatens Israel, and we did. He said the Americans only want oil, and, of course, Iraq has…

— Michael Scheuer

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and…

— Keith Olbermann

Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let…

— Rachel Maddow

We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's…

— Jesse Jackson

The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of…

— Lawrence Kaplan

The enemy [in Iraq] pulls back. We think we're doing well. Well, they pull back. They're not stupid. And then after we…

— Donald Trump

Republican control of the Senate = expanded neocon wars in Syria and Iraq. Boots on the ground are coming!

— Ron Paul

What I want to know is why in the world the Democratic party leadership is supporting the president's unilateral attack on Iraq?

— Howard Dean

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into…

— Peter Schuyler

One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days…

— Tom Brokaw

The United States has no credible evidence that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria early last year before the U.S.-led…

— Condoleezza Rice

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

— Elizabeth Dole

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not…

— Vali Nasr

If I was comforting the Islam nation for its crisis of Pakistan's earthquake, I today congratulate it and bless the Islamic victory…

— Ayman al-Zawahiri

The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam…

— Richard Engel

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other…

— Timothy McVeigh

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

— Sam Brownback

We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

— Wendell Berry

There was never a recorded Iraqi terrorists in the last 20 years in any terrorist attack. There were no terrorists in Iraq…

— Jodie Evans

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

— David Hackworth