Baghdad Quotes - Page 2

We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.

I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.

There has been no electricity in Baghdad for a week and the people are angry. You would be angry too if you couldn't watch your brand new stolen TV.

I think in Baghdad, any westerner, journalist or not, has a big dollar sign on his or her forehead. So, first and foremost, you are a ticket to unimaginable wealth. And that makes any trips out of the safe zones very risky.

In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

When you get to the point where Baghdad is basically isolated, then what is the situation you have in the country? .. You have a country that Baghdad no longer controls; that whatever's happening inside Baghdad is almost irrelevant compared to what's going on in the rest of the country.

He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.

I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

It's always sort of amazing, sitting in Baghdad, to watch visiting dignitaries being received in the Green Zone by politicians who have usually very little support and seldom go outside the Green Zone.

If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.

Am I responsible or are you', a senior official asked his pilot, dubiously beginning a flight to Baghdad, 'for seeing that this machine is not overloaded?' 'That will have to be decided at the inquest.

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.

Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.

Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.

But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.

There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

The electricity is back on in Baghdad. That is a very climactic moment in any country's liberation, when the lights come back on and you get a good look at what you looted.

We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.