T Quotes
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“The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.”
“The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't work with these Shia militias running amok in these areas.”
“The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!”
“The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!”
“The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.”
“The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.”
“The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.”
“The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah.”
“The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas.”
“The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.”
“The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed, no big change in that. We are fighting against them.”
“The Iraqis are committed to their rights as much as they are committed to the rights of others. Without peace they will be faced with many obstacles that would stop them from fulfilling their human role.”
“The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.”
“The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.”
“The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.”
“The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.”
“The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.”
“The Iraqis needed to know that we weren't going to leave them alone. No matter how difficult it was, the United States would help them realize the universal desire to be free. Now of course, if you didn't believe in the universality of freedom, then of course, you wouldn't act. I care how they live and I believe a free Iraq will be transformative.”
“The Iraqis sat down for talks on how to put together a post-war government. They would have sat down yesterday, but somebody stole all their couches.”
“The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.”
“The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.”
“The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.”
“the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.”
Source: The Quality of Mercy
“The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.”
Source: The Wandering Years
“The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.”
“The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.”
Source: The Financier
“The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.”
Source: TransAtlantic
“The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.”
Source: Miscellaneous writings
“The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.”
Source: The Hour of Spring
“The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.”
Source: What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era
“The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.”
“The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.”
“The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.”
“The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.”
Source: An American Dream: A Novel
“The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.”
“The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters”
Source: How the Irish Saved Civilization
“The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.”
“The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them.”
“The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of the very few that was still democratic in 1939. This book shows how the steely determination of one man, Kevin O'Higgins, made this possible. O'Higgins faced down mutinies in both the Gardai and the Army. He dissolved the Dáil Courts which were a parallel system that might easily have undermined the conventional courts. With WT Cosgrave, he put through a constitution which reconciled the local opponents of independence with the new State.”
“The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.”
“The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.”
“The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.”
“The Irish have played a part in every military conflict on American soil since the founding of the republic. Donegal-born Richard Montgomery was the first American general to lose his life in the Revolutionary War. In fact, one British major general at the time told the House of Commons that "half the rebel Continental Army was from Ireland.”
Source: F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome
“The Irish I meet are generous of spirit in the way of rooted people who live where they belong .”
Source: Sitting On The Hag Seat: A Celtic Knot of Poems
“The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary. (In fact, repetition was encouraged on the theory that, oh well, everyone pretty much sinned just about all the time.)”
Source: How the Irish Saved Civilization
“The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.”
“The Irish loved their cabbage. The Germans pickled their cabbage and the Italians made spaghetti sauce and listed to the opera.”
Source: Suppressed I Rise
“The Irish mingled their Christianity with folk beliefs in fairies and changelings.”
Source: 101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish History: The People, Places, Culture, and Tradition of the Emerald Isle