Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

Lose of hope leads to discouragement.

If the sky was full of stars and you didn't have one, don’t be sad, maybe the moon will be yours one day.

Peter." The fine hair along her spine rising, Vicky could feel the power in a name. This is who you are, it said. Come back to us.

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.