James Jeffrey Quotes (7 Quotes)

There can only be an Iraqi solution to this violence.

We find all of these things extremely troubling. We find all of them to be certainly efforts to spark a civil war. And we think that the Iraqis will do their very best to avoid just that.

They would be the first target (for suspicion) you would look at and frankly there aren't too many other obvious ones.

What is happening right now is considerable jockeying for positions, be it the prime minister, be it other key ministerial positions among the various groups. Of importance is that all of the groups, including the Sunni Arabs, are participating in this informal, but very active, and I think very positive negotiations.

We're putting a total of almost 15 billion dollars of US money into the Iraqi security forces. Obviously we have an obligation to the US taxpayer to ensure that that money is correctly used.

I don't have any more information for you on that.

It indicates that the path to national reconciliation and the path to a national compact that we're striving so much for has a ways to go. It means we better continue working and work harder on it.