"The problem with the drone is it's like your lawn mower. You've got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back."

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Source : "Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists" by Greg Miller, www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 2012.

Bruce Riedel

#Drones Quotes #Mowing Quotes #Problem Quotes

“You can't move the sun, and you can't even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.”
“I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.”
“Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.”
“The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
“I want our children in America to know the limits of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
“If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.”
“Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.”
“I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.”

Source : "Nanci Griffith finds her voice again". Interview with Quinn Brown, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.

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