One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.


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I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to Am...
JEFF BUCKLEY
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY
Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a ...
JEFF BUCKLEY
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel ...
JEFF BUCKLEY
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
MARY BUCKLEY
You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press...
LORD BUCKLEY
The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and mus...
BETTY BUCKLEY
Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're a...
JEFF BUCKLEY
With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, aco...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another gu...
JEFF BUCKLEY
Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.
ROBERT BUCKLEY
All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one...
JEFF BUCKLEY
I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
JEFF BUCKLEY
I believe in the power of weakness.
PAT BUCKLEY
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
PAT BUCKLEY
Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something t...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
PAT BUCKLEY
Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their earl...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
We were going 1,000 miles an hour, and I don't want to start over again. It's part of my job to thin...
BILL BUCKLEY
Maybe a little spit here and a little spit there.
BILL BUCKLEY
What I realized almost immediately is I'm all over the place. I don't want to knock something down t...
BILL BUCKLEY
I can't say enough about him. He's a good friend and an outstanding manager at his store.
BILL BUCKLEY
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way o...
BETTY BUCKLEY
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights...
BETTY BUCKLEY
So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn...
BETTY BUCKLEY
Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
BETTY BUCKLEY
If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.
BETTY BUCKLEY
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was una...
BETTY BUCKLEY
I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was th...
BETTY BUCKLEY
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a b...
BETTY BUCKLEY
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and shari...
BETTY BUCKLEY
I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of w...
JEFF BUCKLEY
You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to t...
JEFF BUCKLEY
Cancer in the Family: Communicating With Your Children
BARBARA BUCKLEY
Nevada has passed more and more laws to become the Delaware of the West, ... This type of situation ...
BARBARA BUCKLEY
I would be honored to be speaker if I am fortunate enough to be re-elected and we are fortunate enou...
BARBARA BUCKLEY
What assurance do we have that the gas companies would not raise their prices?
BARBARA BUCKLEY
I never disliked humanity more than when I watched how indifferently they reacted to creation
KEITH BUCKLEY
Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an as...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY