"Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation."

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Source : Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

John Abizaid

#Military Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.”

Source : "Fictional character: Kathleen Kelly". "You've Got Mail", www.imdb.com. 1998.
“The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.”
“I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.”

Source : "Adventures on the High Seas". Interview with Demarian Williams, www.scholastic.com.
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”
“Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it, but once it's inside you it's too late, and it triggers, blowing up. And it's your specific inner beliefs and faulty arguments that trigger a satire bomb. If your arguments work, the bomb doesn't trigger, it doesn't need to.”
“One, as an employer you already have a management problem when your employee has a new child or needs to care for their ailing family member. You've got to replace the person, at least temporarily; it's a tremendous pain to hire somebody new.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I havenâ€™t had trouble with writerâ€™s block. I think itâ€™s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichÃ©d writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesnâ€™t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writerâ€™s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.”
“The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.”

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