Iraq Quotes · Page 49

There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions.

— Bob Menendez

Nation building is our central task, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And states, nations can't just be built with military power.…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up…

— Chuck Hagel

I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one…

— Amartya Sen

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

— Enrique Iglesias

What you don't see on television is people dying today because they can't get to a doctor and they can't afford prescription…

— Bernie Sanders

In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation…

— Gilles Kepel

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

— David Letterman

We have not destroyed al Qaeda, so we still have that to worry about. We have its traditional allies, the Kashmiri groups,…

— Michael Scheuer

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put…

— Ike Skelton

The question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question,…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

We can not imagine that an Arab population forming more than 80 percent of the Iraqi society will allow the article reading…

— Saleh al-Mutlaq

In October 2008, American commandos launched a cross-border raid into Syria to capture an Islamic militant known as Abu Ghadiya. He was…

— Richard Engel

The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from…

— Rick Springfield

I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words…

— Al Pacino

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action…

— Ferdinand Mount

[ Iraq and Afghanistan] don't get better, they only get worse. Bombing them has only enabled them to grow and multiply.

— Jill Stein

“Let me just say, we call Iraq the abnormal normal, 'cause over there the weirdest stuff is just everyday life.”

— Ben Fountain

Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability…

— Jay Rockefeller

I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War…

— George Packer

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness.…

— George W. Bush

War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today,…

— George F. Kennan

A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and…

— Tina Fey

I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much,…

— George Packer