Quotes about clarke (15 Quotes)


    Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace. Field was referring to Creston Clarke's performance of King Lear in Denver in 1880.

    I was involved in the students' union and I had a meeting in London, chaired by the president of the students' union Charles Clarke (now Home Secretary). Howard had no plans for the weekend, so we hatched this plot whereby I took the money for the train fare, but, instead of getting the train, he could borrow a car off a friend, the train fare would pay for petrol and we could stop at his friend Richard's house in Reading,

    Mr. Clarke made assertions that we have said are flat-out wrong, and it's important for the American people to have the facts. Mr. Clarke certainly decided on his own to go ahead and reveal conversations that were considered private previously.




    We work on that a lot in practice. We have players on the bench and coaches always watching the other team to see where the holes are. Allison Clarke is doing a really good job of reading more and making anticipation plays.

    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.

    It seems to me, the FBI has more questions to answer than Condoleezza Rice or former White House counterterrorism adviser Dick Clarke or anyone we've had testify before us so far,


    Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.


    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.


    According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

    I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.



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