Each of you is perfect the way you are. . . and you can use a little improvement.
Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.
The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are capable of manufacturing and deploying chemical, radiological, and biological weapons. Al Qaeda attracts the kind of highly educated men who one day might be able to pull off such an attack.
I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U. S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.
There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.
I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation. . . Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.
At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.
So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.