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" The episode of the 'shoe bomber,' Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu temple. My solution has been to replace my customary lace-up Oxfords with a pair of slip-on loafers when I fly. Generals are always fighting the last war, and security screeners are the same. "

Shashi Tharoor

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" The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story. "

" My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners. "

" The war on drugs is a war against the communities. "

" The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. "

" I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. "

" Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present. "

" War is a defeat for humanity. "

" War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. "

" Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women. "

" It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war. "

" I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint. "

" There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. "

" Only the dead have seen the end of the war. "

" Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone. "

" The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law. "

" Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. "

" Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? "

" I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

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" I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it. "

" The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. "

" Many of the people who are most considered anti-American would love to partake of the American dream: the unspoken slogan of many protesters outside U.S. embassies abroad is really: 'Yankee go home, but take me with you.' "

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" Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. "

" Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance. "

" I am proud to represent the capital of Kerala, a state that in so many ways is a trailblazer for India's progress, though in other respects it seems to have been left behind in the race for 21st century development. "

" Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America. "

" Sweat saves blood. "

" Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. "

" I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time? "

" Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette, and Mumbai - that teeming 'maximum city', with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling and killing for success - is his brush. "