Jay Garner Quotes (8 Quotes)

The new ruler of Iraq is going to be an Iraqi. I don't rule anything, ... I'm the coalition facilitator to establish a different environment where these people can pull things together themselves and begin a self-government process and, with our assistance, begin a reconstruction process and end up with a democracy that represents the freely elected will of the Iraqi people.

I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.

By the middle of the month, you'll really see a beginning of a nucleus of an Iraqi government with an Iraqi face on it that is dealing with the coalition,

He had 12 years to hide it. He was very skillful at doing that,

was the jewel of the Middle East at one time and it can be the jewel of the Middle East again.

to conduct assessments of how to establish local policing, local security.

It has been the plan all along that once Bremer got his feet on the ground

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.