At the time, you thought he was talking about the Iraqis. In fact, he was talking about Americans.
Is more what we really need?
It was then I thought, There's no seriousness here, these are not serious people.
"We are certainly going to put public safety ahead of these civil liberties concerns," said McDonnell.
"I look around," Trent Lott said, "and think, 'Am I the only one who thinks this is stupid?'"
What matters is the overall trajectory.
The head of al Qaeda's Iraq operations yesterday ... praised US voters ...
That no responsible member of this administration possesses the presence of mind, the imagination or the courage to address the issue head-on forms yet another part of the tragedy unfolding before our eyes.
It seems a little late in his chief-executive-style Presidency for such an earnest return to graduate school.
Rumsfeld: "In my view it is time for a major adjustment."
"When we heard about it, we said, 'Gee, that's not what we ought to be doing,'" Rumsfeld said Friday.
Can we really afford to return to the destructive view that America, not the enemy, but America, is the source of the world's troubles?
Rumsfeld: I'm more interested in intelligence gathering, connecting intelligence ... That's what we need to get better at ... the soft stuff ... the connectors ... linking ...
Somebody's gonna have to clear up the aftermath ... It may be two or three generations in repairing.
The truth is, our forces are successful in spite of the strategic guidance they receive, not because of it.
We need to reassess everything ... we are in really, really big trouble.
The social dynamic of Myspace puts women squarely in charge.
MemeStreams could put the social network information behind a walled garden. But would anyone want in?
"Word of mouth is the holy grail of marketing."
The analyst's access to investigative data becomes almost entirely a function of personal relationships ...
Though people think they want anonymity, they are actually trading it for recognition and a voice.
A new breed of Islamic leadership is ready to put into practice faith-based principles in a setting of tolerance and unity.
Want to be a real rebel? Read a book.
"In a sense, a lot of these tough choices are kicked down the road."
If something is secret and interesting, it should be exposed.
MORAL: Many a plan has just one flaw: No one has the courage to try it.
"You've got the best job in the world," Rumsfeld told ranch manager Amid Abdelhamid. "Any time you want to trade jobs, I'll do it."
"If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace."
What makes you happy is keeping the other guy down.
Opinion has become the new pornography on the internet.
Your mind is for having ideas -- not holding them.
Recognize the smartest person in the room rather than act like the smartest person in the room.
Asia has too many boys.
Nothing tells you more about Hollywood than what it chooses to honor.
Team loyalty trumped open-minded discussion ...
Do you know your company’s plan for responding to bird flu?
"This web site needs more AJAX!", they shouted in unison.
"We must allow our students to ask why, not just keep on telling them how."
Social networking is the 21st century equivalent of collecting baseball cards.
Rapid modernization is likely to produce more short-term radicalism, not less.
Now, after some three billion years, the Darwinian era is over.
All cities are effectively one city now.
The future of international relations will be a lot like the Middle Ages.
"Are we animals? Are we taking this too far?"
Tough talk in news conferences, overheated charges that evaporate under scrutiny and executions for symbolic purposes will not make us safer.
... the first and most necessary step is to understand ... and give respect ...
... to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas.
If the children are being instructed in the pink plane, can we teach them to think in the blue plane and live in a pink-plane society?
If killing one thing you know produces three things you don't, are you really making progress?
"pasting feathers together, hoping for a duck"
Success will require new cultures of unclassified information sharing ...
I'm sorry, but anyone whose music appears on "Friends" is not dangerous.
A watershed moment for Internet privacy
... war is migrating into the hands of the many and the small ...
Sir, I've noticed that whenever you frame a debate, it always contains false choices. The "debate" you're willing to have is always between options of your own choosing.
Terrorism, at a deeper level, is about psychology and the "propaganda of the deed." And as far as al Qaeda is concerned, it is also about economic warfare.
The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching, and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.
"It has become clear that Internet access in itself is a vulnerability that we cannot mitigate. We have tried incremental steps and they have proven insufficient."
And so began the most harrowing 30 minutes of my life.
The point that we wish to convey is that it is now fairly easy to devise scenarios in which the United States "loses" a war.
CBGB’s was like a big playhouse, site of conspiracies, orgies, delirium, refuge, boredom, meanness, jealousy, kindness, but most of all youth.
The larger problem is that terrorism has created an atmosphere in which no official wants to be the one who gives a visa to an Al Qaeda operative, while there is no professional price for barring a professor with unpopular ideas or for making a graduate student miss a semester of school.
It is not that life imitates art, but that it is all art.
It began as a covert guerrilla action that spread virally and eventually became a revolution.
We've had plenty of shouting matches on the war; what we need are better leaders and more capable media.
"If a grad student can figure it out," he said, "we can assume agents of Al Qaeda can do the same."
Five years after September 11 the FBI still has a mere thirty-three experts who speak Arabic. 40 percent of Iraq's professional classes have left the country. Americans are already becoming irrelevant to the future of Iraq.
... the courage to question the Pentagon's old-school way ... NEVER give a gun to a duck ... verlan ...
