Talk Of…

Archive for November, 2007

“I spent four years living overseas when I was a child living in Southeast Asia”

“A lot of my knowledge about foreign affairs is not what I just studied in school. It’s actually having the knowledge of how ordinary people in these other countries live”

“It’s very hard for you to make good foreign policy decisions. Foreign policy is all about judgment”

“It’s understanding what the world looks like from the outside”

Very few people have seen what the world looks like from the outside, let alone understand it.

“Every place you go you hear about no progress being made”

“The government is stalemated today, as it was six months ago, as it was two years ago”

“It is not getting better, it is getting worse”

But he wasn’t. He was talking about Iraq. Or what he thinks he knows about Iraq anyway.

“I have concluded that New York state cannot successfully address this problem on its own”

“I am withdrawing my proposal”

“You don’t need a stethoscope to hear the heartbeat of the public on this one”

“The international community needs to decide whether it will go with one man or the people of Pakistan”

“I’m calling for Gen. Musharraf to step down, to quit, to leave, to end martial law”

“Pakistan is a nuclear-armed country. We cannot afford this kind of chaos and instability”

“I have a whole crew that will have a terrible holiday season because there’s no resolution”

“I care about people losing their homes”

“I care about my hair and makeup artists who can’t make ends meet”

“We have put together a documented portfolio that frankly puts their lies in such a total light of absurdity and indecency, that should they ever rear their ugly heads again, we have every single ‘t’ crossed and ‘i’ dotted, and I welcome that in a sense”

“It’s a shame we weren’t able to produce all that at the time”

“I don’t think I’ve changed in my willingness to tell things as I see them, I did that when I ran for president

“I’m not sure I did it quite as directly and effectively as hopefully I can do it now”

“We had been trying to hide that cousin thing for a long time”

“Everybody’s got a black sheep in the family”

“A crazy uncle in the attic”

“In my view, rushing to war – we should not be doing that – but we shouldn’t be doing nothing”

“And that means we should not let them acquire nuclear weapons, and the best way to prevent that is a full court press on the diplomatic front”

“I don’t know how you pursue al-Qaida without engaging them in combat”