“I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as ...” — Anthony Zinni Quote

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to make a clear judgment as to what we can and can't do and whether it's in our interests, or we could afford the resources that it would take to make the situation right.

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

Every one of my products - my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows - is just me.

You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.

I think NASCAR and racing have been around for a long time. I certainly enjoy it, and there's a lot of connects to people. People drive to work every day, and there's a lot of genuine connection there. If people are interested in seeing that, building into that, I'm proud of what I'm a part of.