Best Iraq Quotations
1426 Iraq quotes by 670 unique authors
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There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political…
— Chuck Hagel
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This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia.…
— Chuck Hagel
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It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact that…
— Carl Levin
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We shouldn't knee jerk anything. The Iraqi government a few years back, when they had a chance to sign an agreement that would keep some…
— Carl Levin
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If money or military might would change that part of the world... we would have done it by now. Enough is enough.
— Joe Manchin
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At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This…
— Barry McCaffrey
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I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't stand up and…
— Rand Paul
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This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.
— David Petraeus
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Do you know how I feel about that? I'm sure this is no big surprise... what a mistake. I should never have voted for that,…
— Harry Reid
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As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be a single boot on the ground. There's enough American blood in Iraq that lasts forever.
— Harry Reid
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Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include a large segment…
— Adam Schiff
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I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very…
— Adam Schiff
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As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be…
— Craig Kilborn
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As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it -…
— Jay Leno
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We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will…
— Jay Inslee
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The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end…
— Joe Biden
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The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's…
— George H. W. Bush
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The latest developments in Iraq are deeply troubling, but as the United States considers military and diplomatic responses to the actions of the Islamic State…
— Sean Patrick Maloney
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I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in…
— Jim McDermott
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I'm not interested myself personally right now in doing anything. We went there. We lost a lot of blood, a lot of treasure, did a…
— Buck McKeon
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There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions.
— Bob Menendez
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What is happening in Iraq now is awful, but it is a consequence of our invasion, not our withdrawal.The blame for what's happening right now…
— Unknown Author
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We've given Iraq a chance. Now they need to stand on their own. This is a 1,400-year-old conflict, and unless we are prepared to bankrupt…
— Unknown Author
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Going out across the desert I remember the feelings that you have, wondering if you're going to make it out alive. Right now I wonder…
— Scott Perry
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Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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