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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 Muslim women that I have met are super-powerful and amazing and smart and they are, they're not allowing themselves to be held back by the laws that exist. And you know, the Internet exists now, and mobile phones are freeing up stuff. I have a really good friend who's from Iran and a really good friend who's from Kuwait, and they talk about getting music on the black market and how that's such an intense, amazing experience. And how they value the music so much more, because it's such a risk to own it.

  Larkin Grimm

  Powerful, Smart, Good Friend

  "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.

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• Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until last night, when withdrawal began.

  Saddam Hussein

  War, Night, August

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• What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Democracy, India, Pakistan

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 506, 1991.

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