Quotes by Paul Bremer - Page 1

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.
Paul Bremer / Diplomat
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Iraq
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You know, the country is basically peaceful.
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Peace
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Peaceful
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I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.
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Sovereignty
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We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.
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Iraq
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Thrown
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We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.
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[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.
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United States
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As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.
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These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.
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People
United States
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I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.
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The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.
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We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.
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Iraq
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I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.
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Framework
Importance
People
Political
Political Life
Thinking
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There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.
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It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed - my job here will be done.
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I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.
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Focus
Serious
Single Person
Sole
Terrorist
Thinking
Threat
Counterterrorism
Shifts
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We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.
Paul Bremer / Diplomat
War
People
Trying
Indeed
Iraqi
Iraqi People
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Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.
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Fragile
Saddam
Stealing
Trouble
Trying
Years
Something Else
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I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
Paul Bremer / Diplomat
Courage
Patience
Extraordinary
People
Real
Thinking
Iraqi
Iraqi People
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Shown
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.
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Community
Degeneration
Human Intelligence
Intelligence Community
Particular
Progressive
Today
Years
General
Last
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When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.
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Allies
Late
Modern World
Terrorism
Thinking
Trying
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The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, `Oh, my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this?'
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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 / Diplomat
Senators
Terrorism
In The End
Seriously
Worse
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I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.
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Constitution
East
Middle East
Response
Life Change Work
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Result
Throw
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While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is, in all of the polls I've seen, the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.
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Facts
Majority
Matter
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While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.
Paul Bremer / Diplomat
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Opinion
Polling
Public Opinion
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Vast
Exactly
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