“The abuse of U.S. taxpayers' and Iraqi oil revenues witnessed in recent years has undermined the Iraq reconstruction project and put American troops at risk.”
Charlie Cray
“I think it's perfectly appropriate and reasonable to expect that the prime contracts for reconstruction, funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars, would go to the Iraqi people and those countries who are working with the United States on this difficult task of building a free, prosperous and sovereign Iraq for the Iraqi people,”
Scott McClellan
“Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.”
William Beveridge
“Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.”
Katherine Anne Porter
“The important thing is that the worst is over, ... Now comes the reconstruction.”
Vicente Fox
“The displaced survivors of hurricane relief ... have been displaced again in reconstruction.”
Jesse Jackson
“Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.”
Jonathan Miller
