Paul Bremer

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of…

— Paul Bremer

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

— Paul Bremer

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the…

— Paul Bremer

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

— Paul Bremer

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the…

— Paul Bremer

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

— Paul Bremer

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to…

— Paul Bremer

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this,…

— Paul Bremer

It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed -…

— Paul Bremer

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of…

— Paul Bremer

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent…

— Paul Bremer

I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.

— Paul Bremer

The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until…

— Paul Bremer

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

— Paul Bremer

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

— Paul Bremer

We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony…

— Paul Bremer

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political…

— Paul Bremer

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the…

— Paul Bremer

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

— Paul Bremer

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

— Paul Bremer

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

— Paul Bremer

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

— Paul Bremer

I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going…

— Paul Bremer

We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.

— Paul Bremer