Ability Quote by Chuck Hagel

It is unfortunate that there is not a government in Iraq that has been able to unify the Shiites and the Sunnis sufficiently. They…

— Richard Lugar

There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers.…

— John Kasich

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for…

— Peter DeFazio

If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate…

— Bob Kerrey

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new…

— Muqtada al Sadr

While our goals in Syria were never clearly enumerated by then-President Obama or President Trump, throughout the war one of our most committed and…

— S.E. Cupp

To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we…

— Jalal Talabani

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel…

— Les Aspin

“If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Kurds know that they won't achieve their own state by force of arms but through international recognition. And they have certainly heard what…

— Ahmed Chalabi

Iraqis don't trust one another, parties and ministries are run by sects and not by functionaries.

— Lawrence Kaplan

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some…

— Noah Feldman