Haider al-Abadi Quotes

When Saddam Hussein was overthrown, Iraqis resolved never to allow one man, one political party, or one segment of society to dominate our diverse nation. Now we have the opportunity to build an Iraq worthy of what we are: a pluralist people, steeped in history, striving to build one nation in peace and mutual respect.

Haider al-Abadi

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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Past
  • Door
  • Angry

• Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Important
  • Think
  • Me

• I want to do whatever I can to survive.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Survive

• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • She
  • Fashion

• Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Late
  • Chief
  • Relative

• I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Interested

• From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Know
  • Flight
  • Birds

• You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • She
  • Want
  • You

• I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Funny
  • Always
  • Never

• When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.

  

  Quentin Crisp

• You have to be logical. You know? If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over, I mean, just throwing food around, but they're telling me there's no food.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Food
  • Party
  • Be Logical

• When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Die

• We are the voices of the wandering wind,Which moan for rest and rest can never find;Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life,A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Wind

• I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Business
  • Together

• We have suicide bombers blowing up buses in Israel and very real anti-Semitism on the march in Europe, but the TV networks located the worldwide danger zone for Jews as the space between Mel Gibson's ears.

  

  L. Brent Bozell III
  • Up
  • Real
  • Space

• When you have a bad game the social network isn't exactly your best friend. People tend to go after you a little bit, but I don't let it bother me.

  

  Eddie Lacy
  • Games
  • Littles
  • Social

• If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club".

  

  Walter Kasper
  • Society
  • To Be
  • Europe

• What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Violence

• When Saddam Hussein was overthrown, Iraqis resolved never to allow one man, one political party, or one segment of society to dominate our diverse nation. Now we have the opportunity to build an Iraq worthy of what we are: a pluralist people, steeped in history, striving to build one nation in peace and mutual respect.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Society
  • Peace
  • Saddam Hussein