"I understand, probably more than anyone, what a threat Iraq was and the people that threatened Iraq was. I was beneath the towers on September 11th when they fell. And I -- again, I just -- I want to thank the President for the honor in allowing me to go there, because I lost 23 people. I wear this -- this memorial band for the 23 I lost."

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Source : "Cnn Live Event/Special" with Soledad O'brien, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2003.

Bernard Kerik

#Iraq Quotes #People Quotes #Memorial Quotes

“Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.”
“We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.”
“The Puerto Rican fans have supported me and it means a lot. I'm a Puerto Rican just like they are.”
“It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.”
“The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.”
“People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.”
“Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.”
“Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.”

Source : Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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