The stronger women get, the more men love football.
It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.
Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.
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.
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.
World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in.
I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it.
Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.