Capital Quote by Alex Berenson

Iraq has a lot of critical needs. It's got to come up with budgetary resources to finance health care, education and other important public…

— Bill Murray

Iraq is not about oil.

— Bobby Ray Inman

There is not a shortage of assets in northern Syria but a shortage of targets.

— Crispin Blunt

The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.

— Virgil Goode

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

— Jalal Talabani

Compounding Iraq's problem is that its economy is highly dependent on oil.

— Peter Bergen

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

— John Podhoretz

If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such…

— Vladimir Putin

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

— Chris Kyle

It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

— William Odom

There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.

— Reuven Rivlin

But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days…

— Daniel Yergin