Paul Bremer Quotes

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.

We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

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

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

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.

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed - my job here will be done.

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

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.

We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost,

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.