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You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation. — John Abizaid

Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of. — Crystal Lowe

I was willingly confused by the times — Richard Hugo

Our forces will not be on the sidelines. — John Abizaid

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes. — John Abizaid

I believe we've ... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government. — John Abizaid

The members of Hyperion's crew were now pigs, for a very simple reason: they all had a stake in Clark's Internet businesses. — Michael Lewis

It's possible to be completely enlightened ... except with your family. — Chogyam Trungpa

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time. — John Abizaid

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi. — John Abizaid

rang through the room. She stopped in mid-step and whirled to face him. "Do not — Victoria Alexander

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home. — John Abizaid

Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them. — John Abizaid

You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best. — A.R. Rahman

And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline. — John Abizaid

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable. — John Abizaid

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa. — John Abizaid

But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate. — John Abizaid

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them. — Sherwin B. Nuland

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling. — John Abizaid

Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4. — Dennis Lindley

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build. — John Abizaid

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state. — John Abizaid

It is extremely difficult to stay alert & attentive instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monolog inside your head. — David Foster Wallace

7 Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge. — Anonymous

Most women, once they get to know me, very much enjoy the sex but hate the actual man who gives it to them. — J.A. Huss

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States. — John Abizaid

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence. — John Abizaid

But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership. — John Abizaid