Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. |
My sense is there's a lot of momentum behind this desire for democracy here, ... We've had town hall meetings, selection of provincial councils ... all over this country. There's a real thirst for democracy. |
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. |
send in people who are effectively guerrillas and have them get in the country and try to set up social services and decide that these social services are their ticket to popularity. |
The fact of the matter is that we are facing a small group of bitter-enders who are basically trying turn the tide of history. |
The FBI is after these guys because they know something or they are trying to scare them. |
The general referendum will be successful and the draft constitution ratified if a majority of the voters in Iraq approve and if two-thirds of the voters in three or more governorates do not reject it. |
The IG auditors presume that the coalition could achieve a standard of budgetary transparency and execution that even peaceful Western nations would have trouble meeting within a year, especially in the midst of a war, |
The people who are attacking the coalition and who are trying to upset the security here are of course in the first instance attacking us. But in the end, they're really attacking the Iraqis, because they're really trying to undermine security, ... Security is the first and most important role of any government to its citizens. |
the question is how do we select a transitional government by the end of June. |
the terrorists are willing to kill as many people as they can, indiscriminately, and they seem to have killed quite a number of schoolchildren today in addition to policemen. |
the tragic waste and abuse of billions of dollars that belonged to the Iraqi people. |
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. |
These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are. |
They [might have] lost track. [They] can be trying to disrupt an operation. [They] could have a number of purposes at once. |