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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

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate. — 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

Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy. — 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 behavior
is 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 moment
That 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

But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth. — Leslie 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