The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration’s d...
Senator John Kerry
It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You heard about the Medicare actuary who was forced to fudge the numbers and lie to Congress to keep his job. You heard the falsified numbers in Iraq on ...
Senator John Kerry
We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.
Senator John Kerry
Well, you know, when I talked about the $87 billion, I made a mistake in how I talk about the war. But the president made a mistake in invading Iraq. Which is worse?
Senator John Kerry
I don`t know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that`s state of the art?
Senator John Kerry
What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press.
Lewis H. Lapham
We have a variety of intelligence and we`re sure we`re going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We`ve learned lessons from Iraq and we`re getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.
Bryan Hilferty
[July 2004] I just don`t have a great feeling about what we`re doing in Iraq. I don`t know why we`re there. Didn`t we just give the power back over there? Why are we still there?
Jessica Alba
Asked to pay tribute to troops fighting in Iraq: "I know it`s a difficult time for you to come out to party during such a time of strife in our world. My feeling is that I hope everyone will be safe and protected and taken care of, and our prayers are wit...
Sharon Stone
[on the Iraq war] I wasn`t for going in there. Only because democracy isn`t something that you get overnight. I don`t think America got democracy overnight. It`s something we had to fight for and believe in.
Clint Eastwood
When the war in Iraq began I was anchoring the overnight coverage for CNN. Your teleprompter is blank and you have four hours to fill, and it can be a very long night if you don`t know your stuff. I like that challenge.
Anderson Cooper
[on the Iraq war] "There are a lot of Americans who also feel that a lot of this war talk is economic, part of this has to do with the oil. I think it really has to come down to respecting how other people live. There`s got to be ways this can be worked o...
Martin Scorsese
Maybe our government went in too fast with the Americans. It would have been better if the UN had been together. Now it`s become very bloody with Iraq, it`s very difficult. If someone came to my house and blew it up, I wouldn`t just want to sit there and ...
Paul McCartney
On Bush`s war in Iraq - "He did it in the worst possible way - without the United Nations, without our allies and without a plan to win the peace."
John Kerry
In retrospect, it`s usually pretty easy to look at horror movies and see the influences of the time. And I think right now, with the post-9-11 world and Iraq, creative people are almost being goaded to look at things in the strongest way possible. If you ...
Wes Craven
[on the Iraq war] My druthers would have been, "Get a more benevolent dictator and stick him in. You know, try somebody a little less mean." You don`t go in there and fire the army. The army`s got to do something. When you fire `em, you leave them all une...
Clint Eastwood
[on the invasion of Iraq] Personally, I don`t have all the information President [George W. Bush] has. But I believe [Saddam Hussein] has committed many crimes against humanity and his own people.
Tom Cruise
[on the administration of President George Bush and its invasion of Iraq] "For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that [this] administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I ...
Dustin Hoffman
No, I am not in favor of the war in Iraq, so let me stop you right there. I am not pro-war but what I am is that, I like to support the young men and women who are over there participating in the war.
Bruce Willis
You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don`t, you get stuck in Iraq. Campaign speech, October 30, 2006.
John Kerry
[on the Iraq war] "One hopes that this kind of war can be done diplomatically, with intelligence rather than wiping out a lot of innocent civilians."
Martin Scorsese
History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time.
Senator John Kerry
