Top 55 Bremer's Quotes
#1. We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost,
Paul Bremer
#2. People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is ...
Fredrika Bremer
#3. I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.
Paul Bremer
#4. If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.
Fredrika Bremer
#5. 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.
Paul Bremer
#6. So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of a mission? Should you quit your job and find a goal? Probably not. But look around you. You may be on a mission, and not realize it yet.
Michael Bremer
#7. Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money.
Paul Bremer
#8. Love like an anvil had cracked my locked heart open and unleashed an excruciating flow of tenderness
Krista Bremer
#9. 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.
Paul Bremer
#10. North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case.
Fredrika Bremer
#11. It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed - my job here will be done.
Paul Bremer
#12. A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.
Fredrika Bremer
#13. The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.
Fredrika Bremer
#15. I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.
Fredrika Bremer
#16. I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.
Arthur Bremer
#17. You know, the country is basically peaceful.
Paul Bremer
#18. The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.
Fredrika Bremer
#19. These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.
Paul Bremer
#20. 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 that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.
Paul Bremer
#21. 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.
Paul Bremer
#22. It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.
Arthur Bremer
#23. As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.
Paul Bremer
#24. For the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.
Fredrika Bremer
#25. Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.
Paul Bremer
#26. When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like "Leadership" by Rudolph Giuliani . I didn't take it as an encouraging sign.
George Packer
#27. We still haven't gotten the message; we still don't see that it's bad. And then we copy everything about their [Roman Empire] structure. I mean Paul Bremer was the proconsul of Iraq. We're still using ancient terminology, we still have Senators and we have an Emperor, almost.
Immortal Technique
#28. True coworkers give each other honest feedback to improve their work.
Marcella Bremer
#29. In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.
Arthur Bremer
#30. If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should non deplore their lot but nothing, nothing.
Fredrika Bremer
#31. I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.
Paul Bremer
#32. Is this neuro-bot really supposed to be her, this creature, this thing, compiled of the ghosts of human data, the replicas of their past?
Bremer Acosta
#33. These Americans believe that everything is possible ...
Fredrika Bremer
#34. Christianity is a daily supernatural experience with your Father God not a setof rules
Robin Bremer
#35. I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.
Paul Bremer
#36. There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Fredrika Bremer
#37. 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.
Paul Bremer
#38. [Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.
Paul Bremer
#39. When you give your items away, don't keep the excess of your pride.
Bremer Acosta
#40. 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.
Paul Bremer
#41. I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
Paul Bremer
#42. Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.
Bremer Acosta
#43. We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.
Paul Bremer
#44. All the latchkey children cursed and smashed bottles, teased about underwear, and puffed on those unfiltered cigarettes that only the cowboys could roll.
Bremer Acosta
#45. Is this still battle? Is this still the glorious matching of man against man? Or is this just murder? He did not care. I cannot tell jokes, or make pretty conversation, but this I can do. This I am made for. Bremer dan Gorst, king of the world!
Joe Abercrombie
#46. Bremer also observed "a pretty little white boy of about seven years of age sitting among some tall Negro girls. The child had light hair, the most lovely light brown eyes, and cheeks as red as roses; he was, nevertheless, the child of a slave mother, and was to be sold as a slave.
Michelle Gordon Jackson
#47. The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.
Paul Bremer
#48. I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.
Fredrika Bremer
#49. I hope my death makes more sense than my life.
Arthur Bremer
#50. At a certain depth all bosoms communicate, all hearts are one.
Fredrika Bremer
#51. For no good reason, George W. Bush and the best and brightest he could muster, including the likes of Paul Bremer and Paul Wolfowitz, decided it made sense to attack Iraq.
Jay Parini
#52. I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.
Paul Bremer
#53. We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.
Paul Bremer
#54. Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.
Fredrika Bremer
#55. 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.
Paul Bremer
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