Iraq quotes

Explore the resilient spirit and rich cultural heritage of Iraq through inspiring quotes, shedding light on its history, people, and hope for a brighter future.

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

- John Negroponte

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.

- Carl Levin

Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.

- Frank Carlucci

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

- Hans Blix

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

- Charles Evers

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

- David Letterman

Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.

- John Negroponte

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

- Hans Blix

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

- Jalal Talabani

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.

- Bill Pascrell

Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.

- Eric Shinseki

Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.

- Hans Blix

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

- Paul Bremer

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

- Gerhard Schroder

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.

- Clare Short

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

- Robert Byrd

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations.

- John Negroponte

I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.

- Paul Bremer

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf