After Quote by Richard Engel

“I found Baghdad, like most big cities in the world: big, exciting, interesting, rich, poor, hot, cold, restless, sleepless, and cruel at one and…

— Louis Yako

I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers.…

— Zaha Hadid

The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design…

— P. J. O'Rourke

See, now I take trips to Baghdad dummy. While I use stacked chips and count Arab money now, I don't need to get fresh,…

— Busta Rhymes

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological…

— Peter O'Toole

People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house against another…

— Frederick Stanley Maude

I think in Baghdad, any westerner, journalist or not, has a big dollar sign on his or her forehead. So, first and foremost, you…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.

— Edna Ferber

Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has…

— Annia Ciezadlo

“The objective was simple: capture or kill the brutal leader of a kidnapping ring with ties to the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a…

— Oliver North

People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.

— Aleksandra Mir