Jay Garner Quotes

United States, Military General
April 15, 1938

Jay Montgomery Garner (born April 15, 1938) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was appointed in 2003 as Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq but was soon replaced by Ambassador Paul Bremer and the ambassador's successor organization to ORHA, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA).

He had 12 years to hide it. He was very skillful at doing that.

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- Years
- Hide
- Skillful
...was the jewel of the Middle East at one time and it can be the jewel of the Middle East again.

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- Time
- Middle East
- Jewel

It is very important that people start back to work, especially those in public service.

Jay Garner
By the middle of the month, you'll really see a beginning of a nucleus of an Iraqi government with an Iraqi face on it that is dealing with the coalition.

Jay Garner
We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

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- Smile
- Mirror
I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.

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- War
- Beginning
It has been the plan all along that once Bremer got his feet on the ground.

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- Plan
- Ground
- Bremer
This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

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- People
- Job
- Darkness

To conduct assessments of how to establish local policing, local security.

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