Shiites Quotes

We've spent too much time over the last couple of years talking about the Kurds and the Shiites and the Sunnis. We've got to start talking about Iraqis. - John Abizaid

We will kill 99 Shiites here; we have already killed 16. - Graffiti

We should have a consensus between the three groups -- Shiites, Kurds and the Sunnis. - Jalal Talabani

We need a regional strategy that persuades Iraq's neighbors to wield their influence with the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds for political compromise. They will do it, because no one other than the terrorists has an interest in Iraq descending into civil war. - Joseph Biden

We keep reading stories about five Marines dying today and 55 Shiites being blown up in Baghdad... There is considerable frustration over that, and that frustration is the source of political problem for Bush. He's got his name on this war. - Andrew Kohut

We have warned our neighbors - our Arab brothers, our Islamic brothers - that the new Iraq is going to be a different one... It's always been taken by those who oppose change in Iraq that Iraq has been hijacked - by the Americans, by the Israelis, by the Kurds, by the Shiites - to strip it from its Arab womb. ... If you care so much, why don't you have embassies? Why don't you send ambassadors? - Hoshyar Zebari

We are not living in a country where a party with a two-vote majority in Parliament can rule - this is not Iraq. If the Shiites and Kurds will cooperate, there will be a majority, but this is not right, and not the correct way to rule the country. - Jalal Talabani

This was an event ... that really shook Iraq to its core because the late ayatollah was a very powerful figure among the Shiites in the post-Saddam Hussein era. - Ben Wedeman

This government will be credible only if it has real powers...... must, therefore, be accepted by the different political forces and the main communities, the Sunnis, the Shiites and the Kurds. - Michel Barnier