Kay Bailey Hutchison Quotes

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980.

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

Saudi Arabia needs friends. We are in a war in Yemen, in a confrontation with Iran, so we need friends like Canada, Europe.

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

Even when you just hear the word 'Syria,' it packs a lot of political connotations.

Iraq is not about oil.

Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.

I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.

President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.

Saudi Arabia must return to fully supporting the Syrian revolution and to ally with the Turks.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

Saddam was a bad guy. Assad's a bad guy. Nobody's denying that.

Russia and Iran back Assad, but are they fighting Daesh? The answer is 'no.'

Syria is still the foundation of the axis of evil, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to transfer Israel's northern front to the axis of evil.

Syria is a problem, but Iran is a bigger problem.

Da'esh and Assad are not separate problems.

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

In the late 1980s, the United States and Israel believed that they had good intelligence on Iraq, but they missed the extent of Saddam Hussein's pursuit of unconventional weapons - until after he invaded Kuwait.