“I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.” PeopleThinkingPoliticalImportanceBasesFrameworkPolitical Life Author:Paul Bremer
“We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.” AliveIraqFinishedThrownSaddam Author:Paul Bremer
“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.” ThinkingPersonsFocusSeriousThreatTerroristSoleSingle PersonCounter Terrorism Author:Paul Bremer
“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.” IfsYearsHumansLooksFactsTodayLastsCommunityFieldsParticularProgressiveHuman IntelligenceIntelligence CommunityDegeneration Author:Paul Bremer
“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.” TryingYearsTroubleOne ThingStealingFragileSaddamWasting Money Author:Paul Bremer
“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.” IfsCountryHappensDutyPolice Author:Paul Bremer
“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.” PeopleTryingWarShowsDeals Author:Paul Bremer
“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.” ThinkingWorldTryingStatesUnitedDealsUnited StatesModernFiguresLateWaveTerrorismDecadesAlliesModern World1960s Author:Paul Bremer
“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, in all of the polls I've seen, the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.” KnowsMatterHardFactsOpinionMajorityPublic OpinionPollsCoalitionsPolling Author:Paul Bremer
