Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.
The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
The United States isn't going to do anything That it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, We'll be capable of doing it.
[ Osama bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.
You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.
It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.
I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. . . . . . Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted.
The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.