#ira

We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses. ↗

— Jon Porter

#done #fired #first-hand #five #front

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral. ↗

— Michael Todd

#else #felt #going #i #intervening

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed...the habits of a vigorous mind are formed contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#experience

It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#europe #iraq #question #true

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#examples #familiar #material #may #objects

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#civilians #died #field #iraqi #killing

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#domestic #iraq #iraq war #over #prevention

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq. ↗

— Jack Reed

#accurate #accurate information #another #design #difficult

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe. ↗

— Jack Reed

#army #around #breaking #confront #crises

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#every time #give #happens #love #miracle