I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of movies about happy people living in Connecticut. And ever since then, that was where I wanted to live. I thought it would be like the movies. And it really is. It's exactly what I hoped it would be.


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9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are ki...
PETER BERGEN
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
EDGAR BERGEN
Maybe it is the war or the movies or because this generation was bred on radio comedy, but I found o...
EDGAR BERGEN
OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
EDGAR BERGEN
Charlie, what is nature of life?
EDGAR BERGEN
The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed ...
PETER BERGEN
I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I c...
DAVID BERGEN
When Abu Zubaydah was shown a series of photos of al Qaeda members by Soufan, he identified one of t...
PETER BERGEN
It starts at the top. It's valuable. When you have a young group, they might not have that push. By ...
SHANNAN BERGEN
The Green Berets of U.S. Special Forces 5th Group - known as 'the Legion' - who led the anti...
PETER BERGEN
The Turkish government will never tolerate the creation of a Kurdish state.
PETER BERGEN
The senior director at the NSC for the Middle East is retired Col. Derek Harvey, an Arabic-speaking ...
PETER BERGEN
If a parent knows that their kid is suddenly becoming infatuated with ISIS, they face a very difficu...
PETER BERGEN
I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Mar...
ERICH BERGEN
There is clearly a lot of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan, less so in Afghanistan, but I think t...
PETER BERGEN
This is not rhetoric. This is for real.
PETER BERGEN
There's overwhelming evidence bin Laden was behind the attacks of September 11. If the family choose...
PETER BERGEN
Saddam Hussein was put on notice that he can't do those type of things.
PETER BERGEN
The purported will states, 'Attack them on the sea. Attack them on the land. Attack them everywhere....
PETER BERGEN
They're going public, ... They're saying, 'We're having this war against the United States.'
PETER BERGEN
At night, temperatures here fall below the freezing point.
PETER BERGEN
After all, the chain of custody of these tapes is the one way to find bin Laden. He obviously feels ...
PETER BERGEN
There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less t...
BERGEN EVANS
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no f...
BERGEN EVANS
In the past, Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, of which SEAL Team 6 is a key component, has...
PETER BERGEN
'Zero Dark Thirty' is a great piece of filmmaking and does a valuable public service by rais...
PETER BERGEN
Glamorized ... am I glamorous?
CANDICE BERGEN
What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the Un...
PETER BERGEN
One meeting does not make a conspiracy. Saddam Hussein does not engage in these types of acts.
PETER BERGEN
We've been consolidating radar services literally for decades. When we do this, we make optimum use ...
KATHLEEN BERGEN
Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is righ...
DAVID BERGEN
Why not just flip the two and have the team thing at the end?
BOB BERGEN
The dual meets are much more fan-friendly than these individual tournaments that drag on for 12 hour...
BOB BERGEN
I think wrestling would take a big step forward if it treated itself like other team sports. I?d lik...
BOB BERGEN
It's somewhat of a contradiction, ... I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to pus...
DAVID BERGEN
She's a kid that'll go through a brick wall for you.
SHANNAN BERGEN
I'd seen the show, and I'd read the reviews of the show, and I said, 'Oh! What I wouldn't give to wo...
CANDICE BERGEN
I love the sort of cat and mouse with Denny Crane and that's really fun to play,
CANDICE BERGEN
When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
CANDICE BERGEN
I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfe...
CANDICE BERGEN
-Because they're free.
-They might look free, but they aren't. Believe me. You're free.
-H...
DAVID BERGEN