Kuwait Quotes

• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Funny, Military, Humorous

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• Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Mother, Father, Past

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• Love for Kuwait is always prior to self-love, money, and children.. In the heart of every Kuwaiti, Kuwait's love grew it's seeds, spread its roots and branches all around our good land

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Children, Heart, Self

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• We start from Kuwait, and to Kuwait we end. Anyone but that, is not from Kuwait, and Kuwait is not from them.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Ends

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• Kuwait has been a safeguard for who remained inside her, unaffected from the dangers that surround them, loyal to this land, and loving her soil, and believing the justice of her cause.. Also, Kuwait was the hope for the ones outside, where they continued to strive by gathering all the forces for her right, without these two wings, the state would have been another state.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Believe, Wings, Two

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• It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Country, War, Iraq

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• Kuwait is our haven which God has given us, the home he granted us.. Kuwait is our origins and branches, security and resolution, protection and glory.. The past, present and future.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Home, Past, Branches

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• If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

  Lawrence Korb

  Giving, Grew, Carrots

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• Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market

  Gary Miller

  Country, Land, Oil

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• Kuwait is the origin which our roots extend in it's base. The fort that we seek for shelter and stick to after God Almighty. Kuwait is the entity that maintains our presence that's united in it's features and divisions.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Roots, Sticks, Division

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• It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Iran, Tyrants, Hussein

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• Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Roots, Branches, Regulation

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• While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Voice, Government, Giving

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• The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Children, Responsibility, People

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• Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

  Kenny Marchant

  Years, Iraq, America

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• Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

  Dick Cheney

  Iraq, Decision, Today

  "Two Americas?", www.motherjones.com. March 19, 2004.

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• It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Baghdad, Missiles, Knows

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• There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, August, Years

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.168, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Kuwait needs tougher guarding. Guarding that's not limited to weapons, soldiers and border control, but extends to every Kuwaiti soul with awareness, vigilance and anticipation

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Soldier, Soul, Weapons

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• There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

  Jesse Jackson

  People, Has Beens, Disenfranchised

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• The first question [American college kids] asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.

  Ayshay

  Kids, College, America

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait .

  April Glaspie

  Country, War, Intelligent

  "Confrontation in the Gulf". Excerpts From Iraqi Document on Meeting With U.S. Envoy, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 1990.

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• The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing behind us are the armies of Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation. This act will astound the world. Today they will know that the Arabs are arranged for battle, the critical hour has arrived. We have reached the stage of serious action and not of more declarations.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Army, Israel, Egypt

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• Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard purebred evil and is easily recognized even by moral neophytes. Other malignities-drugs in America, famine in Africa and everything in the Middle East-are more complex. When combating those evils people sometimes have trouble deciding whom to shoot.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Men, Iraq, America

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Dwarves, Sea, Oil

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.120, Basic Books

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