Jackie Spinner Quotes

We're probably getting about 80 to 90 percent of the story because we're able to use Iraqis to help us. - Jackie Spinner

We're dealing to some extent with an unreasonable insurgency. Journalists should have immunity. We shouldn't be part of the political situation there and yet we are. - Jackie Spinner

This has been our No. 1 threat and our worst nightmare for almost two years. - Jackie Spinner

There is a lot of opportunistic crime in Iraq, but eventually, it all comes down to politics. The video and their demands for female Iraqi detainees showed they think they have something. - Jackie Spinner

The Iraq war has so polarized this country. That's why you hear hisses and boos and claps, depending on what you're saying people want to hear journalists reaffirm their previously held beliefs about the war. And I don't do that. I simply speak what I see. And I'm sorry if that's offensive to people, but I'm a journalist. - Jackie Spinner

That was a sign of respect for her. She was able to make a connection. - Jackie Spinner

It means that they might not have carried through with their threat, that perhaps all of these pleas and these calls for her release, particularly from the Sunni politicians, might be getting through. - Jackie Spinner

If the borough of Manhattan was peaceful, but there was a car bomb in Brooklyn every day, it's tough to talk about the tranquility. - Jackie Spinner

I think we're getting 90% of the story. - Jackie Spinner

I think she had to bank on the fact that she could connect in some way with her captors. Unlike most Western journalists, she spoke good Arabic. And if you look at her work, she comes across as compassionate, as balanced. - Jackie Spinner

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