Aspin Quotes

#1. It didn't matter, anyway. There was only one thing she could ask for, in the end, only one real choice.
She raised her eyes to the Angel's.
"Jace," she said.

Cassandra Clare

#2. I would so rock at running amuck.

K.C. Randall

#3. There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

Les Aspin

#4. We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

Les Aspin

#5. You're the one sitting there with a boner. You'll
terrify your charity guys, walking in with that thing pointing
at them.

Sherilee Gray

#6. While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

Aesop

#7. We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.

Les Aspin

#8. Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.

Les Aspin

#9. Forest! They seek your trees to sleep among,
With their long sentences hung. Forest!

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

Kangana Ranaut

#11. Physical comfort
materialism, if you like
is the enemy of any serious spirituality, I think. When we're warm and well fed, our souls can be empty and we still make it through the day. And as I've discovered recently, it is the greatest poverty of all.

Lucinda Riley

#12. There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.

Nas

#13. If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

Les Aspin

#14. That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.

Les Aspin

#15. When these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?

Hannah More

#16. It's my place when I'm here alone. It's ours when you are here with me." ~Nolan

Sarah Brocious

#17. Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

Les Aspin