Top 25 Ledeen Michael Quotes
#1. They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.
Michael A. Ledeen
#2. Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
Michael Ledeen
#3. Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.
Michael A. Ledeen
#4. In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that has made Machiavelli so feared, admired, and challenging. It is why we are drawn to him still ...
Michael A. Ledeen
#5. Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'
Barack Obama
#6. We are imitating Nature, who is variable; and he who imitates her cannot be blamed.
Michael A. Ledeen
#8. I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.
Michael Ledeen
#9. The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.
Michael Ledeen
#10. Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
J.R. Moehringer
#11. Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.
Michael Ledeen
#12. Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water, the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.
Megan Whalen Turner
#13. But this flower comes in the form of a human; it must soon succumb to disease, atrophy, ruined skin, broken teeth, the unbearable frailty of mortality.
Mary Gaitskill
#14. My nickname used to be Moses - still is Moses - for a long time, and people just call me Mo for short.
Nelly
#15. Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'
Michael A. Ledeen
#16. It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.
Michael Ledeen
#17. I think the level of casualties is secondary ... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war ... What we hate is not casualties but losing.
Michael A. Ledeen
#18. So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
Michael Ledeen
#19. What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.
Dave Barry
#20. If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.
Michael Ledeen
#21. The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
Michael Ledeen
#22. Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.
Michael Ledeen
#23. Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?
Theodore Roosevelt
#24. At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.
Jack Kerouac
#25. A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.
Richard Thaler
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