Paul Bremer Quotes

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

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

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.