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Chris Alexander Politician
War

"I really see the U.S. staggering under the burden of three blows. One is 9/11 and the threat of terrorism, which is still huge in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere. The second is the failed 2003 war in Iraq, which cost so much and ruined America's credibility in the eyes of so many. Obama has repaired it to some extent, but those scars are deep. And then, thirdly, banks failed, the whole real estate market had the carpet pulled out from under it."

Real War Eye
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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
War

"I ain't shootin' nobody. So call me a faggot! When the war's over, I'll be the faggot with two legs, thank you!"

War Funny Humor
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
War

"I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him."

War Father Military
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
War

"Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's made by the anti-war movement between being over there and over here was exposed for all to see as an illusion. Although a number of people, a large amount of people still share in it. In other words, when I've been in Iraq or Afghanistan, I've probably been safer because I can carry a weapon if I have to, than my wife and daughter are living in Washington."

War Daughter Iraq
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
War

"Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that."

War Hate Winning
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
War

"The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity."

War Cancer Stupidity
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
War

"I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position."

War Groups Ridiculous
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
War

"Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for."

War Fighting Violence
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Clancy Brown Actor, Voice Actor
War

"Star Wars - the movie I saw 12 times as a 17-year-old. The movie that began a cultural and creative universe that now spans generations. For me to be a part of this in The Clone Wars is a dream come true."

War Dream Stars
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Clive James Writer
War

"How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all."

War Air Peace
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Clive James Writer
War

"Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine."

Writing War Stars
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Coco Chanel Fashion Designer
War

"Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics."

War Winning Principles
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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
War

"Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured in the East Coast/West Coast rap wars."

People War Rap
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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
War

"People all over the world now are following our election. And according to a new international poll that just came out, I think this came out a few hours ago, this is true, people in Canada want Barack Obama to be the next U.S. president. That's what they're saying. In Canada, yeah. That makes sense, because Obama has the support of Canada's anti-war voters, as well as Canada's black guy. He is very excited."

People Thinking War
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Connie Willis Author
War

"TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR."

War Girl Airplane
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Connie Zweig Author, Psychologist
War

"I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As soon as we lost our age-old enemy, the Soviet Union, we instantly created a new one."

War Age Enemy
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Conrad Black Businessman, Author
War

"Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal."

War Party Cutting
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