David Kay Quotes
In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
-
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
-
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
-
You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
-
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
-
My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
-
Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
-
At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
-
Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
-
When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
-
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
-
Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
-
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
-
My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
-
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
-
Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
-
I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.
-
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
-
It's not a problem to be great and do good things.
-
The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
-
By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.
-
In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.
