Paul Bremer Quotes

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

That power which had both the purse and the sword, had the government of the whole country, and might extend its powers to any and to every object.

We are now on occupied territory.

Conquest gives a title which the courts of the conqueror cannot deny.

I don't want to conquer North America. I only want a share.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Where the German soldier stands, no other shall put his foot.

See, I have taken England with both my hands

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

Smash the lot of them …. Show them the fist. Prove yourself a sovereign. You are the autocrat and they should not dare to forget it.

I have only to raise a finger and the whole face of Europe is changed.