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Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
— Claud Cockburn
We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.
— Alistair Cockburn
Got to kick at the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight
— Bruce Cockburn
I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'
— Bruce Cockburn
All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.
— Bruce Cockburn
And I'm wondering where the lions are.
— Bruce Cockburn
We get things wrong before we get things right.
— Alistair Cockburn
No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
— Alexander Cockburn
The new post-Saddam Iraq had no secular heros.
— Patrick Cockburn
Lee was conscious that Nizar watched her trying to adjust her abaya. She knew everyone could tell a Western woman by her awkwardness and her shoes.
— Leslie Cockburn
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
— Bruce Cockburn
If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.
— Bruce Cockburn
Why did you become a journalist?""Better than working for a living. — Leslie Cockburn
Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.
— Alistair Cockburn
From anti-semite to self-hating jew, all in one day
— Noam Chomsky
The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.
— Bruce Cockburn
Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
— Bruce Cockburn
It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.
— Bruce Cockburn
'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
— Bruce Cockburn
All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.
— Bruce Cockburn
Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.
— Alexander Cockburn
Yes, I know, I'm only an artist. What would I know about the dark side of Baghdad?
— Leslie Cockburn
I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.
— Leslie Cockburn
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
— Bruce Cockburn
In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.
— Leslie Cockburn
You can take me to Petra, and sing for me in the ruins.""Insha'Allah. — Leslie Cockburn
Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.
— Bruce Cockburn
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
— Alexander Cockburn
I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.
— Bruce Cockburn
I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.
— Leslie Cockburn
Regulation of sexual behavioris the preferred route to wider social
control. — Alexander Cockburn
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
— Alexander Cockburn
Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.
— Alexander Cockburn
Are you a journalist?""I'm a doctor."
"Good. We need doctors, Wallahi." Sadoon scowled. "Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets. — Leslie Cockburn
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.
— Claud Cockburn
Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.
— Bruce Cockburn
Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.
— Bruce Cockburn
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
— Alexander Cockburn
Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
— Alexander Cockburn
When you know even for a momentThat it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations — Bruce Cockburn
I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.
— Bruce Cockburn
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
— Bruce Cockburn
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
— Alexander Cockburn
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
— Leslie Cockburn
A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.
— Claud Cockburn
Happiness in its purest form is held in silence.
— Anne-Marie Cockburn
It's a very enclosed world on Wall Street.
— Leslie Cockburn
When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.
— Leslie Cockburn
Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.
— Patrick Cockburn
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
— Leslie Cockburn
Biden said that in Syria the US had found that there was no moderate middle because the moderate middle are made up of shopkeepers, not soldiers.
— Patrick Cockburn
By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.
— Alexander Cockburn
There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
— Bruce Cockburn
I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.
— Bruce Cockburn
In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.
— Alexander Cockburn
I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.
— Alistair Cockburn
But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.
— Bruce Cockburn
The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
— Alexander Cockburn
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
— Bruce Cockburn
Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.
— Bruce Cockburn
Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.
— Claud Cockburn
Of the nineteen hijackers that day, fifteen were Saudi.
— Patrick Cockburn
One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.
— Bruce Cockburn
Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.
— Alexander Cockburn
The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.
— Bruce Cockburn
When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.
— Leslie Cockburn
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
— Alexander Cockburn
The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences
— Alexander Cockburn