Karpinski Quotes

You take a request down - literally, you take a request to the Finance Office. If the Pay Officer recognized your face and you were asking for $450,000 to pay a contractor for work, they would pay you in cash: $450,000. Out of control. - Janis Karpinski

With record breaking profits should come record breaking responsibility. - Gene Karpinski

What I found particularly disturbing in her testimony was her complete unwillingness to either understand or accept that many of the problems inherent in the 800th MP Brigade were caused or exacerbated by poor leadership and the refusal of her command to both establish and enforce basic standards and principles among its soldiers. - Janis Karpinski

We're never going to know the truth until they do an independent commission or look into this independently... This is about instructions delivered with full authority and knowledge of the Secretary of Defense and probably Cheney. I don't know if the President was involved or not. I don't care. All I know is, those instructions were communicated from the Secretary of Defense's office, from the Pentagon, through Cambone, through Miller, to Abu Ghraib. - Janis Karpinski

We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift. - Janis Karpinski

We haven't dealt very effectively with those photographs or what they indicated. - Janis Karpinski

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose. - Janis Karpinski

They can do whatever they want. They can make it appear anything they want... I will not be silenced. I will continue to ask how they can continue to blame seven rogue soldiers on the night shift when there is a preponderance of information - hard information - from a variety of sources that says otherwise. - Janis Karpinski