Iraq Quotes · Page 4

Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq.

— John Doe

The world [is] now seeing might is right.

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Long live jihad and long live Palestine.

— Saddam Hussein

Katrina did not declare a truce on Iraq.

— John McCain

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

— George W. Bush

Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism.

— Donald Trump

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

— Barbara Boxer

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Jayson Williams

No time limit in Iraq; stay until we achieve stability.

— Rudy Giuliani

My generation knows the cost of short-sightedness in Iraq.

— Conor Lamb

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

— Dick Cheney

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

— Saddam Hussein

Everything that happens in Iraq affects countries outside.

— Patrick Cockburn

Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy.

— John F. Kerry

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

— Sandy Berger

It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt…

— Donald Rumsfeld

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

— Donald Trump

The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.

— Fouad Ajami

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S.…

— Sherrod Brown

It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you…

— Walid Muallem

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.

— Donald Rumsfeld

When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have…

— Donald Rumsfeld

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged…

— Ron Fournier

I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1…

— Dennis Cardoza

Iraq is not only fighting to defend itself, but also to defend all countries of the world, especially as these foreign fighters…

— Ibrahim al-Jaafari

Saddam Hussein... I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you're going to find out…

— Bill O'Reilly

The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it…

— Wesley Clark

We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what…

— Jalal Talabani

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale…

— George Soros

People may be vaguely aware that there's suffering in Iraq and Afghanistan, but simply because the media are filled with American-centric versions,…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

As far as France is concerned, we are ready to envisage everything that can be done under UNSCR 1441. [...] But I…

— Jacques Chirac

Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But…

— John F. Kerry

In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war.…

— Larry Brilliant

I think in a post-9/11 world, with the images coming back from Iraq, everybody knows more and more people who are going…

— Eli Roth

John Kerry presented his confidence and his convictions. It's not about confidence, it's about evidence. The Russians have completely opposite evidence that…

— Bashar al-Assad

Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq is clearly a 'client' state of the West, of Turkey and to some extent, Israel. It is…

— Andre Vltchek

The United States was the one nullifying any attempt in the Security Council of the United Nations to sanction those fascist governments,…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

The fact that this organisation is called the Islamic State reveals something even deeper. In fact, it implies that every single Islamist…

— Tariq Ramadan