Paul Bremer Quotes

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• I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.
• The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major…
• We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost,
• As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.
• We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.
• These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.
• You know, the country is basically peaceful.
• I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the…
• [Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.
• 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 to change our…
• I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.
• Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.
• We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.
• I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of…
• If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community…
• Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing…
• There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are…
• We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are…
• When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade,…
• While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is…

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