I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.
Quotes about looting (16 Quotes)
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
Any weapons of mass destruction or the equipment to make them is unprotected, and given the looting, you have to assume that some of it has been taken away.
Overall the security situation in Mazar remains somewhat unstable. As of this morning, we heard reports that along with occasional looting there is also 'punitive action' that is being carried out. We have also heard that fighting is continuing in and around the city.
Black people are no different than any other group of people in the world, ... Explaining the looting, you have to go far, far beyond skin color.
If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.
It is said that Robin Hood fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, no.
That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival, ... This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery.
At times it is hard to ignore the comparisons between Baghdad (where I was less than a month ago and have spent more of the last two years) and New Orleans The anarchy, the looting, some of it purely for survival, some of it purely opportunistic. We watched a flatbed truck drive by, a man on the back with an M-16 looking up on the roofs for snipers, as is common in Iraq. Private security contractors were stationed outside the Royal St. Charles Hotel when asked if things were getting pretty wild around the area, one of them replied, Nope. It's pretty Green Zone here.'
These are not individuals looting. These are large groups of armed individuals.
Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country.
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
What he said to his audience about poaching on Tuesday was this Let me call that athletic looting, to be provocative, ... and we won't stand for that.
There was a concern that looting would increase at nighttime, ... We had a report of a bank burglary Sunday morning in East Texas, and there were some reports of localized looting.
Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.