Ayad Allawi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

  • As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

  • The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

  • You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.

  • Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

  • I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

  • What was said before is not important.

  • So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

  • We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.

  • When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.

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