Edward Walker Quotes (17 Quotes)

We had a great amount of cooperation with the Jordanians on the intelligence side, and with the Turks as well, so we were getting value out of the relationship,

This is something that's been leaning in this direction for some time, and the mosque incident has accelerated the process. What we're talking about is people looking out for their own. I don't think it can be turned around.

I don't think we're going to have any efforts for a while. I don't see how you can marry up the Palestinians with the Israelis when both are undergoing leadership crises.

Part of the responsibility has to be on the opposition powers. If they can't organize and they can't put up attractive candidates and develop a message that galvanizes the people, they aren't going to succeed.

This is what happens when you are in the middle of an incipient civil war. I think he has been in some ways discredited.

Part of the strategy is keeping the rhetoric up to remind the Syrians that they are not out of the box yet and that Lebanese democracy has the full support of the Western powers.

It's expected that you reward your own. It goes down to the tribal base of these societies. You don't have a sense of nationalism.

What we do on the show and real life are different, ... On the show we try to give the impression of what the room should be or could be.

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

There has been a lot of movement of people of one sect or another into certain branches of the military or the police. We've tried, but it's hard to integrate them. But I don't see that there's any mood to integrate at this point.

a training ground for democracy in which the candidates ... actually had to campaign, to get out the vote. These are all skills that Egypt doesn't have in large measures, and they are going to be critical if a real opposition will develop.

They see themselves winning over other groups and now they're fighting to see who gets the biggest piece of the action. That puts the U. S. in a different position.

It was in the national security interest, because we depended on the stability in Turkey and the stability in Jordan in order to encircle Saddam Hussein.

Ruling parties don't give up power voluntarily. They have to be defeated at the polls, and they have to be defeated by a better organized, more charismatic leader, a better campaign and even better shady tactics -- whatever it takes.

Don't buy a 300 sofa and think it will last for years, ... Go ahead and buy the more expensive one, and down the road you can have it reupholstered. I'm getting ready to reupholster my sofa, which I've had for more than 12 years.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

My advice is to invest in a wonderfully made carpet rather than a cheap one,