Iraq Quotes

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.

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

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

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

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

A system devolving power to the regions is the route to a viable Iraq.

The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.

The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them

From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

France... What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully-conceived and brilliantly-executed war in Iraq?

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.

Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.

One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country.

I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.

I thought then and I think now that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust and I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished.

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

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

The day that I can land at the airport in Baghdad and ride in an unarmed car down the highway to the Green Zone is the day that I'll start considering withdrawals from Iraq.