"We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh."

Source : Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

Michael Herr

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“We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.”

Source : "Citizenship, Colombia-style" by Yvonne Roberts, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.
“If it ain't rough, it ain't right”
“This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.”
“I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.”

Source : "It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America". Book by Jack Cafferty, 2008.
“I think women directors have to be really tenacious.”

Source : "‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.
“The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.”
“A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.”
“... as we are being blunt, the fact is that Tony [Abbott] and the people who put him in his job do not want to do anything about climate change. They do not believe in human caused global warming. As Tony observed on one occasion "climate change is crap" or if you consider his mentor, Senator Minchin, the world is not warming, its cooling and the climate change issue is part of a vast left wing conspiracy to deindustrialise the world.”

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