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1. "Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'" ~ Michael Scheuer
2. "The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them." ~ Michael Scheuer
3. "'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected." ~ Michael Scheuer
4. "Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary." ~ Michael Scheuer
5. "We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq." ~ Michael Scheuer
6. "You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince." ~ Michael Scheuer
7. "No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area." ~ Michael Scheuer
8. "A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing." ~ Michael Scheuer
9. "And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd." ~ Michael Scheuer
10. "Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions." ~ Michael Scheuer
11. "I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor." ~ Michael Scheuer
12. "I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet." ~ Michael Scheuer
13. "It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest." ~ Michael Scheuer
14. "No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable." ~ Michael Scheuer
15. "One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him." ~ Michael Scheuer
16. "The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book." ~ Michael Scheuer
17. "Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about." ~ Michael Scheuer
18. "Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself." ~ Michael Scheuer
19. "Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not." ~ Michael Scheuer

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All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door."
Author: C.S. Lewis

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