All Quotes

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.
‐‐ Asghar Farhadi

Iranian parents can't stop their children. They're just wild - they want to party, they want their rights, they want to paint, they want to dance. No one can stop these new generations coming. That's why Iran has to open up: it's like a pot full of hot water, vapour and steam.
‐‐ Golshifteh Farahani

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.
‐‐ Edward Luck

Iranians call California and Iran 'sister cities;' they're very much alike. Iranians feel at home here and the weather is so close to Iranian weather.
‐‐ Shohreh Aghdashloo

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
‐‐ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.
‐‐ Michael Ledeen

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Iraq and Afghanistan will, over time, become stable. But the War on Terror will continue long after Iraq and Afghanistan have had success in standing up their own governments.
‐‐ Peter Pace

Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.
‐‐ Jeff Sessions

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.
‐‐ Chris Chocola

Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out.
‐‐ Jose Serrano

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
‐‐ Hans Blix

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.
‐‐ Charles Evers

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.
‐‐ Dennis Kucinich

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

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.
‐‐ Scott Ritter

Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.
‐‐ George Tenet

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money.
‐‐ Paul Bremer

Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.
‐‐ Paul Bremer

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.
‐‐ Lakhdar Brahimi

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.
‐‐ Janeane Garofalo

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Iraq is falling apart.
‐‐ Lindsey Graham

Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
‐‐ Scott Anderson

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.
‐‐ Mark Shields

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
‐‐ Harold Pinter

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
‐‐ George W. Bush

Iraq is not about oil.
‐‐ Bobby Ray Inman

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.
‐‐ Jalal Talabani

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.
‐‐ Tom Daschle

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza

Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
‐‐ Elizabeth Dole

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.
‐‐ Barbara Boxer

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.
‐‐ Ali Abdullah Saleh

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'
‐‐ Bill Maher

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.
‐‐ David Letterman

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
‐‐ Al Gore

Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.
‐‐ Ahmed Chalabi

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein brutally repressed all forms of opposition to his regime, and before the Iraq War, al Qaeda had no presence in Iraq.
‐‐ Peter L. Bergen

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some ways disenfranchised relative to the other groups, or at least they perceive themselves that way.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.
‐‐ James A. Leach

Iraqis must fight for their own country.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry

IRAs are intended for retirement.
‐‐ Max Baucus

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
‐‐ Imelda May