Famous Quotes & Sayings

Akbar Rafsanjani

Yes, Kuwait and other states in the region.

Dick Cheney

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

Dalai Lama

Tibet is not like Kuwait. Kuwait has oil.

Jesse Jackson

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

Jesse Jackson

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

Lawrence Korb

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

Saddam Hussein

The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.

Bill Bryson

I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

Richard Lugar

It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

Peter Schuyler

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

Phil Klay

Certainly, when I'd left Iraq back in 2008, I'd been proud of my service, but whether we'd been successful or not was still an open question.

James Dobbins

Most Iraqis remain less secure than they were under Saddam, less secure even than they were in the first year of the American occupation.

Igor Ivanov

The problems of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq can be solved by political means,

John Reid

We are in Iraq for as long as it takes to solve the problems in Iraq, ... until the job is done.

Donald Rumsfeld

We are in Iraq for as long as it takes to solve the problems in Iraq,

George Voinovich

We have to really level with the American people, ... This is not going to be over in two years ... we're not going to just be able to walk out of Iraq and this is going to be over.

Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

Kelly Moylan

Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.

Helen Suzman

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Joe Solmonese

It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping.

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.