Paul Bremer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.”

“I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.”

“I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.”

“These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.”

“We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.”