Iraq Quotes - Page 16

• As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on The Factor .. I'm not going to dress you down anymore.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Father, War, Names

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• President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait .

  April Glaspie

  Country, War, Intelligent

  "Confrontation in the Gulf". Excerpts From Iraqi Document on Meeting With U.S. Envoy, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 1990.

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• La energía solar es una de las tecnologías más esperanzadoras, pero aún produce alrededor del 0,01% de la electricidad estadounidense. Estados Unidos sólo destina 159 millones de dólares anuales a la investigación solar, más o menos lo que gastamos en Irak cada nueve horas.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Technology, Years, Hopeful

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• Saddam Hussein ha invitado a miembros del Congreso estadounidense a visitar Irak. Qué estúpido es Hussein. Si crees que Bush tenía incentivos para bombardear Irak antes, imagínate si el Congreso estuviera allí.

  Jay Leno

  Estúpido, Hombres, Pensar

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• Hoy hace 21 años que Sadam Husein fue elegido por primera vez presidente de Iraq y desde entonces ha sido reelegido. Al parecer, tienen el mismo proceso electoral que nosotros, no hace falta el voto popular para ganar.

  Jay Leno

  Winning, Years, Popular Vote

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• We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

  Wendell Berry

  Vietnam, Forgotten, Resent

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• With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

  David Hockney

  Photography, War, Editing

  "'Photography is Crumbling'". Interview with Martin Gayford, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2004.

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• I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?

  John F. Kerry

  Arte, Escuela, Media

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• The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous pro-European. These are both policies he shares with us.

  Vince Cable

  War, Two, Courageous

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• El diálogo es bueno, Estados Unidos solía hablar con Irak todo el tiempo. Los miembros del Congreso no tienen ninguna habilidad especial en la inspección de armas. Sin embargo, si los miembros pudieran ir acompañados de expertos en inspección de armas, eso podría ser un paso en la dirección correcta.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Skills, America, Special

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• This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.

  Adnan Pachachi

  Religious, Fall, Government

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• There have been plenty of markers that show that this [Iraq] is a country that is worth the investment, because once it emerges as a country that is a stabilising factor, you will have a very different kind of Middle East.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Middle East, Different

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• It's hard thinking about Iraq at night when I'm dancing with transvestites in the afternoon.

  Jerry Springer

  Night, Thinking, Dancing

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• La liberación de Irak formaba parte de un esfuerzo más amplio para enfrentarse seriamente a la mayor amenaza para la seguridad mundial: los Estados delincuentes capaces de obtener armas de destrucción masiva de largo alcance.

  Armstrong Williams

  Mass Destruction, Long, Effort

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• I will be asking my network to lead a discussion on the issues of class, race, energy, the environment, disaster planning, Iraq -- all those things and more. This encompasses so many of the major issues of our time.

  Brian Williams

  Race, Class, Issues

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• Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Rejection, Would Be, Arms

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• Creo que la prensa, que podría decirse que se acobardó ante la administración (Bush) en el periodo previo a la guerra contra Irak, no se acobardó en absoluto a la hora de cubrir las consecuencias del Katrina.

  Ken Auletta

  Correr, Guerra, Pensar

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• Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic.

  Robert Novak

  Partido, Islámico, Pensamiento

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• One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Adventure, Benefits, Outcomes

  "Iraq vows to cooperate on prohibited missiles". cnn.com. February 19, 2003.

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• The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.

  Amr Moussa

  Effort, Progress, Occupation

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• I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Wall, People, Cynical

  "Arnold An 'Arrogant Patriarch'?". www.foxnews.com. April 05, 2012.

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• Controlled Middle East oil, it would control the world. This oil represents 65 percent of world oil reserves. Therefore, America believes if it squashed Iraq, it would control the oil of the Middle East and consequently hold the oil in its hands [and] fix its price the way it likes.

  Saddam Hussein

  Believe, Hands, Oil

  "Saddam: U.S. 'believes it should control the world'" by James Martone, www.cnn.com. September 2, 2002.

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• These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East. The secret is out, There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.

  Fouad Ajami

  Country, Writing, Two

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• If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.

  Anthony H. Cordesman

  Military, Moving, Civilization

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• Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of Iraq believe that civil war must be avoided. It's very positive that they are all saying it.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  War, Believe, Past

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