35 Quotes by David Kay

I have had absolutely no pressure prior, during the course of the work at the Iraq Survey Group, or after I left to do anything otherwise.

I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine.

Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence.

It was the honest difficulty based on the intelligence that had - the information that had been collected that led the analysts to that conclusion.

It's not something that anyone from the outside can do. So I look forward to these hearings and other hearings at how you will get to the conclusions.

There’s a long record here of being wrong. There’s a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don’t have free and open societies.

I’ve seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.