Constitution Quote by Matt Lauer

Americans took 13 years to draft their constitution and here, we're asking the Iraqis to do it in a short period of time.

— Saxby Chambliss

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

— Newt Gingrich

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Republicans are calling the Democrats' plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an 'admission of failure', as opposed to…

— Jon Stewart

Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive

— Madeleine Albright

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to…

— Wayne White

Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it…

— Alan Wolfe

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going…

— Dennis Ross

The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners…

— Peter Arnett

The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.

— Marty Meehan

Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of…

— Jalal Talabani

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that...…

— Tom Daschle