The reality is that life, for all of us, is pretty stressful and we all need ways to cope.
If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.
Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.
The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.
The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I knew most of the people in the station who were killed in the bombing. So you take the personal aspect of it and the mystery of who the bomber was and the fact that a small group of people could drive us out of a country that was absolutely key to the United States, and what was behind this. . . The fact that they've been able to hide the embassy bombers' identities for all these years tells me we're up against a very capable movement.
Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.
I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.
You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.
The only justification of rebellion is success.
The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.