"We'd be better off if the whole purpose of the adventure in Iraq was, say, to protect Israel or to protect the flow of oil to America and keep it at a reasonable price and try to get some more control. If it was about oil, going into Iraq, I guess, could have made sense. But at a certain point, when the insurgency began and we were in real trouble, there would have been some awareness that we were going to jeopardize the oil."

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Source : Source: www.progressive.org

Seymour Hersh

#Real Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Israel Quotes

“One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.”
“Carra doesn't like me to fist him before the games, so I give him a high-five instead.”
“Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?”
“In other words, they decided right from the start that there's no God, and they're setting out to try to prove that there's no God, ... That's their bias to start with.”
“I wanna get rich enough in life that I can afford to release a dozen doves every time I walk into a room. You know people would be like, 'Did you see that guy come out of the bathroom? The one with doves, it was beautiful.'”
“A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.”
“Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.”

Source : "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'The Great American Experiment'". Interview With Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.ff.org. January 6, 2013.

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