Aiming Quotes
[Karpinski tried to get information, but] nobody knew anything, nobody - at least, that's what they were claiming. The Company Commander, Captain Reese, was tearful in my office and repeatedly told me he knew nothing about it, knew nothing about it... Captain Reese said that not only did he know about it, but he was told not to report it to his chain of command, and he was told that by Colonel Pappas. And he claimed that he saw General Sanchez out there on several occasions witnessing the torture of some of the security detainees.
- Janis Karpinski
[In other words, those taxpayers were claiming fat tax breaks. So fat that the excessive car valuations cost the U.S. Treasury $654 million in tax revenue in 2000, according to the GAO.] When you looked at the deduction versus the cars being donated, there was a discrepancy. There were some real concerns and compliance issues... There were situations where people were being told they could deduct the Blue Book value, period.
- Eric Smith
[Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher praised the pontiff's role in toppling communism.] Millions owe him their freedom and self-respect. The whole world is inspired by his example... His life was a long struggle against the lies employed to excuse evil. By combating the falsehoods of communism and proclaiming the true dignity of the individual, his was the moral force behind victory in the Cold War.
- Margaret Thatcher
[Erdmann argued that, in proclaiming the First Crusade, Pope Urban II was less interested in restoring the rights of Christians to make pilgrimages to the Holy Sepulchre than in unleashing] an ecclesiastical-knightly war upon heathens ... the conceptual change from armed pilgrim to soldier for the faith took place.
- Henry IV
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