"I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this war. You have to be sort of asleep at the switch not to be critical of it. And the parallel between one quagmire we went through in Vietnam and the one we're in now is clear for everybody to see."

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Source : Source: www.progressive.org

Seymour Hersh

#War Quotes #Quagmire Quotes #Vietnam Quotes

“The actual distance a bad golfer is going to hit the ball with any club obviously depends on many factors, not the least of which is whether the ball was actually hit at all.”
“You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think.”

Source : "Sports Commentators". Interview with David Winner, www.askmen.com. September 5, 2011.
“It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.”
“I never lost money by turning a profit.”
“To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.”
“Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.”
“And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.”

Source : William Cullen Bryant, “October”
“The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there are too many conflicting interests that are competing to impede. The second is mistaking incubation for transformation and concluding that failure to achieve escape velocity is due to lack of innovation. It never is. It is always do to lack of leadership focus and, especially, fortitude.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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