Top 36 Quotes by John Abizaid

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and China, that their first use of nuclear weapons would result in the devastation of their nation.

Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.