Important Quote by Juan Cole

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

— Juan Cole

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement…

— Juan Cole

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and…

— Juan Cole

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

— Juan Cole

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

— Juan Cole

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much…

— Juan Cole

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as…

— Juan Cole

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it…

— Juan Cole

To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end…

— Juan Cole

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and…

— Juan Cole

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university…

— Juan Cole

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

— Juan Cole