"Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Zalmay Khalilzad

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“It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Under the blessings of Divine Providence ... It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.”

Source : James K. Polk's First Annual Message to Congress, memory.loc.gov. December 2, 1845.
“I've learned a simple principle: all I have to do is be the best 'me' that I can be. One day when I read the Scripture about David, that he fulfilled his purpose for his generation. I knew God spoke to me.”
“I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.”
“All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.”
“You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.”
“Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.”

Source : Interview with Heidi Holland, December 2007.
“If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't.”

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