A.G. Howard Quotes

The war in Iraq was unwinnable.

I'm not attacking liberals with a broad brush.

I'm not against the Hanukkah songs. I like Hanukkah songs. I grew up with Hanukkah songs. I'm not opposed to Hanukkah or the songs that accompany it, at all.

We won when we toppled Saddam. That was the only clear goal of this war, to topple the Iraqi government. It took about 10 minutes.

I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.

My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy level. I take on a lot of projects at the same time.

Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat.

It is true that there's an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth and all that kind of stuff.

You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

I've lost the one girl I found.

New Jersey gives us glue.

We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.

The guy who finally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden is not patting himself on the back. He's giving as much credit to his teammates who got him to that position.

If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL.

All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite.

Seal Team Six is a different unit than the rest of the SEAL teams inasmuch as they concentrate primarily on one thing, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue.

One's appreciation of nature is never more acute than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

We have had too much of the Clintons, too much of the establishment, too much of Bushes. We have had too much of the old names and the old theories. It's time for a new theory.

If you look at the top ten most reliable cars, as reported by thousands of people in all kinds of independent testing, there's only one American car in the top ten. It's the Buick.

To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.

I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

I never met someone I did not love.

I regret my choice of words which do not accurately reflect the process of the James committee, with which I have been closely involved and totally support.

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.

The point, do whatever it take to approach the Word with a fresh perspective.

The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image.

..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.

Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

We can enhance our intelligences, but I am never going to become Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, or Pele.

Education is at a turning point

I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.

In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research.

'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.