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" We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. "

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" Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.' "

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" When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste. "

" Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is. "

" The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. "

" Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. "

" I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see? "

" I don't want to hear about my death. "

" Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? "

" I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. "

" I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. "

" Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. "

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" I am a danger to myself if I get angry. "

" America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail. "

" A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. "

" Heroes can be sweet. "

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" War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. "

" I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children. "

" Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. "

" I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to. "

" Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. "

" I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. "

" Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. "

" I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. "

" I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. "

" It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces. "

" Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? "

" What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology. "

" Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion. "

" When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die. "

" I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics. "