Iraqis Quotes

You're watching a democratic political process evolving before your eyes in which Iraqis are now pulling together through political compromise, whereas in the era of Saddam Hussein it was coercion and tyranny that forced them to come together. - Sean McCormack

You may say that the Iraqis are overcompensating for Saddam's deceptive pro-Arab slogans. This does not justify what is happening, but might explain it. Saddam used to give the Arabs privileges in Iraq while depriving the Iraqis of similar privileges. There is a reaction in the street and it should be contained. We cannot turn our backs on our Arab milieu. - Ahmed Chalabi

You get to see Iraqis as Iraqis, and there's this huge group of people out there that want to be an independent state. - Lt. Elisabeth Gerhardt

You cannot succeed in this effort if you're not willing to recognize the enormous contribution the Iraqis are increasingly making to their own future. - Dick Cheney

You cannot expect the Iraqis to think that they have their own government if we're appointing their people. We need an election. - Howard Dean

You can tell the Iraqis who are scared because we're here and those who are scared because they're bad. - David Jackson

You can go through these towns again and again, but you can't get results unless you are there to stay. As Iraqis are getting trained, we're going back to take these towns back and build bases inside for both Iraqi and American forces. - Stephen Davis

Yesterday the Iraqis and U.S. troops pulled down a giant statue of Saddam Hussein. They pull it down and it lands right on top of Geraldo. - David Letterman