General Mcchrystal Quotes

#1. When my editors and I at 'Rolling Stone' came up with the idea to do a profile of General McChrystal, I simply just e-mailed General McChrystal's press staff, said we wanted to do a profile, and said if you could give us any time to hang out with the general, that would be great.

Michael Hastings

#2. General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.'

Michael Hastings

#3. General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.

Jim Talent

#4. Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

Jim Talent

#5. To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other.

Michael Hastings

#6. Mystery, why so attractive to me?
You blind me with fear, place hope on my tongue, and with a cold kiss draw me forward. Wary and trembling, I follow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make the horrendous charge that President Bush lied to or deceived the American people about the threat from Saddam.

Laurence Silberman

#8. If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown to you, then all is well. All is well because you believe in the sovereignty of God.

Henry Thomas Hamblin

#9. So this general with the background in intelligence who is supposed to conquer Afghanistan can't even figure out what Rolling Stone is? We're not talking Guns & Ammo here; we're talking the antiwar hippie magazine.

Maureen Dowd

#10. Goal..., let's see this year how far I can reach... and the year which is comming it will be a number above the goal number.

Deyth Banger

#11. We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

Nicholas G. Carr

#12. I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time.

Stephen Shore

#13. Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business.

Roger Stone

#14. Take heed little children
lest what you hold dear.
Be taken way from you
with not the shedding of tear.

Michael J. Compton

#15. From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.

Damon Lindelof

#16. The food I eat the most is probably steamed, plain white rice. I know its really, really, really boring, but that's honestly the food I eat the most. No, I like cucumber avocado rolls ... I love that.

Elizabeth Gillies